Though many of you would claim that I’ve been a nerd for a long time, of which claim I will not dispute, I think yesterday I officially inducted myself into nerd-dom. I was reading the Saturn V rocket manual, and I wanted to know a little bit more about the use of retrorockets (small rockets used for slowing down a space vehicle). The Wikipedia article on them claimed that for the Apollo missions, they were not used. So I was like, “hold on, I just read that they were used for backing off the S-IC and S-II stages after booster shutdown.” Consequently, I edited and corrected the page.
Yeah, I’m a nerd. Score.