Editing Moon landing conspiracy theories (section)

=== Technology used by NASA ===
Digital technology was in its infancy during the time of the Moon landings. The astronauts had relied on computers to aid in the Moon missions. The [[Apollo Guidance Computer]] was on the [[Lunar Module]] and the [[Apollo command and service module|command and service module]]. Many computers at the time were very large despite poor specs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://classroom.synonym.com/computers-70s-20890.html|title=Computers of the '70s &#124; Synonym|website=classroom.synonym.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/faculty/wolfe/book/Readings/Reading03.htm|title=History of Computers|website=homepage.cs.uri.edu}}</ref> For example, the [[Xerox Alto]] was released in 1973, one year after the final Moon landing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2012/4/26/2976870/xerox-alto-commercial-1972-personal-assistant|title=Xerox commercial from 1972 shows the computer as your personal assistant|date=April 26, 2012|website=The Verge}}</ref> This computer had 96kB of memory.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/alto/memos_1975/Alto_Operating_System_Reference_Manual_Jun75.pdf |title=Alto Operating System Reference Manual |publisher=Xerox |via=BitSavers |date=June 26, 1975 |access-date=July 21, 2019}}</ref> Most personal computers as of 2019 use 50,000 to 100,000 times this amount of RAM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zmescience.com/research/technology/smartphone-power-compared-to-apollo-432/|title=Your smartphone is millions of times more powerful that all of NASA's combined computing in 1969|first=Tibi|last=Puiu|date=October 13, 2015|website=ZME Science}}</ref> Conspiracy theorists claim that the computers during the time of the Moon landings would not have been advanced enough to enable space travel to the Moon and back;<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a28434260/moon-landing-hoax-conspiracists/|title=What It's Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist in 2019|first=Eric|last=Spitznagel|date=July 19, 2019|website=Popular Mechanics}}</ref> they similarly claim that other contemporaneous technology (radio transmission, radar, and other instrumentation) was likewise insufficient for the task.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautcentral.com/Moonhoax.html|title=The Moon Hoax; Did we really go?|website=www.astronautcentral.com}}</ref>