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The Space Shuttle had less code than your microwave

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Your kitchen appliances are statistically smarter than Apollo-era spaceships. The Space Shuttle's primary flight software had about 400,000 lines of code. A modern smart microwave needs well over a million just to figure out how to leave the center of your Hot Pocket frozen solid while turning the outer crust into literal lava.

The Space Shuttle had less code than your microwave
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