text: He tells how NASA made eletronics made from silicon carbide and tested them in a chamber to simulate the chaos if you were to touch venus's surface by foot. These inventions only lasted 3 weeks in these harsh conditions. Also they made another project using old mechanical computers they were first envisoned in the 1800s and they had a big role in the 1940s during world war II . Sciencetist thought the computers would act up but they made caluclations by using gears and levers