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True stories behind everyday tech
The full stories behind our short reels: what really happened, the numbers, the people who made the call, and what it means for the phone in your pocket. Every story lists its sources, and points out where the reel had to simplify.
1969Apollo 11 almost aborted its Moon landing because the computer was too busy
1983GPS is free for everyone partly because of a plane that flew off courseHow we check these stories
Each story is checked against first-hand sources where they exist: mission transcripts, official statements and the engineers' own accounts. Quotes are only used when they appear in those sources. When a 45-second reel simplifies something, the full story says so in a "What the reel left out" section.