Re: Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done

2006-11-13 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Smith III) writes: > This is fairly OT, but the key graf is: > "When the shuttle's flight control software was developed in the > 1970s, NAS

Re: Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done

2006-11-13 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:56:30 -0500, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is fairly OT, but the key graf is: >"When the shuttle's flight control software was developed in the 1970s, NASA managers d

Re: Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done

2006-11-13 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:56:30 -0500, Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is fairly OT, but the key graf is: >"When the shuttle's flight control software was developed in the 1970s, NASA managers did not envision the possibility of flying missions during the transition from one year to t

Re: Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done

2006-11-11 Thread Phil Smith III
inal Message- Date:Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:32:45 - From:Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/061109status/ "The shuttle Discovery was hauled to launch pad 39B

Friday fun - Discovery on the pad and the software's not done

2006-11-10 Thread Phil Payne
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts116/061109status/ "The shuttle Discovery was hauled to launch pad 39B today for work to ready the ship for blastoff Dec. 7 on a critical space station assembly and re-wiring mission. NASA managers considered moving launch up an additional day, to Dec. 6,