I never knew and got curious and looked it up. I guess it makes more sense than slamming your testicals against the wall.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    You will hear Apollo astronauts occasionally say “all balls” or “five balls.” After performing maneuvers, they would check their trajectory by taking fixes on stars using the telescope/sextant, this data would be fed into the guidance computer, which would compute their deviation from their intended course. If they were perfectly on their intended course, it would display a variation of 00000. “All balls.” Perfectly accurate.