Here are a couple of items I saw:

The Big Picture printed these photos of the Apollo 11 mission a few days 
ago:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/07/remembering_apollo_11.html

Here's an article about the computer guidance system. The memory was woven 
copper wire through and around tiny magnetic cores.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8148730.stm

"The team of ex-textile workers and watch-makers were employed by defence 
firm Raytheon to "weave" the software into the memory of the computer."

"The little old ladies said: 'that could be my son so I am going to do my 
job as well as I can'."

Bruce 

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