This is a terrible a tragedy to befall a member of the nodejs community. I have alway believed that the compassion of the internet community comes through when things like this happen. C'on guys, lets help a brother out!
a code for a moon shot is probably actually simpler than flying a jet or driving a car (at least in 1969)
your out of the atmosphere in a few ten seconds (if you havn't exploded yet) and then there is very little to interfere with you (vaccum, earth gravity, moon gravity)
however, cars and airplanes are constantly interacting with their complex, messy environment.
clearly, the 10,000,000 lines of code figure includes the operating system.