[post_page_title]Rocket science[/post_page_title]
Technology sure has changed since this picture was taken in 1961. At the time, the United States was involved in the Race for Space against the Soviet Union. Both countries wanted to send a man to space before the other, and their space programs worked frantically to calculate complex trajectories and formulas.
Since computers were not yet in existence, the calculations were often done on huge chalkboards, like the one pictured here. These scientists were posing for a photo for Life magazine, so the formulas on the board are probably not the top secret ones they were really working on.
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