Goal Setting a deep diving record 11 000 meters 36 000 feet Challenge The pressure at this depth amounts to 1 100 kg cm2 15 970 psi like a small car on a thumbnail Innovations Originally Piccard s Trieste bathyscaphe is able to dive down to only some 6 000 meters 19 700 feet A new cast high pressure sphere bathysphere with 13 cm 5 1 inches thick walls enables a depth of 11 000 meters 36 000 feet For comparison in 1934 the first bathysphere achieved only 923 meters 3 028 feet Special aspect Piccard s father Auguste in 1931 was the first human to rise into the stratosphere in a balloon Piccard s son Bertrand flew around the Earth in a balloon and in a solar aircraft respectively Rumor has it among trekkies that Jean Luc Picard captain of the starship USS Enterprise received his name in honor of the Piccards JACQUES PICCARD JAN 23 1960 Goal First human on the Moon Challenge Complex space maneuvers that are not possible to simulate on Earth Innovations A three pack of high tech takes astronauts to the Moon Saturn V Rocket 38 800 km h 24 110 mph Columbia Command Module heat resistant up to 2 726 C 4 939 F and the LM 5 Lunar Module lightweight design in order to accelerate to 6 480 km h 4 026 mph on its ascent from the Moon The Apollo Guidance Computer AGC automatically guides the spacecraft AGC is regarded as the forerunner of the fly by wire systems of modern aircraft Special aspect From today s perspective AGC is a slowpoke smartphone have 10 000 times more processing power NEIL ARMSTRONG JUL 20 1969

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