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Wall writings on Apollo 11 command module revealed

Marking time has long been a human obsession - from the first rudimentary cave markings to wall planners, desk diaries and computerized charts, calendars have always been with us.

Now scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what may be the first calendar created in space.

An ambitious project is underway to map a 3D model of the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, the only surviving part of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. Few people have seen inside the capsule since Nasa transferred it to the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, in 1970.

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Just rambling but as a former naval aviator we lived and died by our fuel ladders that we drew up on our kneeboard cards. they are a a simple table based on our fuel burn rate with with the minimum amount we needed to land at maximum trap (arrested landing) weight at the bottom and the number of pounds we should have at every 15 minute interval which we would check off as our mission proceeded. get ahead of the ladder and you were making gas. USAF pilots didn't have to land on a ship in the middle of the ocean with just a seat ride into the ocean as a divert but I would bet they did something similar and so only natural that Collins would have drawn up a table like the one shown.

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