Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
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Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
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Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#2The link is to "Part I : Manned Spacecraft Computers"
There are three parts total:
http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part2.html (Part II : Computers On Board Unmanned Spacecraft)
http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part3.html (Part III : Ground Based Computers for Space Flight Operations)
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#3The full index: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/contents.html
(it's just the "Index Page" button from the bottom)
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#4Thank you! Very interesting read.
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#5The link is to "Part I : Manned Spacecraft Computers" There are three parts total: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part2.html (Part II : Computers On Board Unmanned Spacecraft) http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part3.html (Part III : Ground Based Computers for Space Flight Operations)
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Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#6The link is to "Part I : Manned Spacecraft Computers" There are three parts total: http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part2.html (Part II : Computers On Board Unmanned Spacecraft) http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Part3.html (Part III : Ground Based Computers for Space Flight Operations)
Excellent read, thanks!
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#7The linked document was published in 1988; here is the title page:
http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Compspace.html
Readers might also be interested in Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight by David Mindell, published by MIT Press in 2008:
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#8"NASA conducted five manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle. The latter four programs produced spacecraft that had on-board digital computers"
Wow, how did they launch something to the orbit without any computer on-board? Was it just like a "dumb slingshot projectile"?
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#9"NASA conducted five manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle. The latter four programs produced spacecraft that had on-board digital computers" Wow, how did they launch something to the orbit without any computer on-board? Was it just like a "dumb slingshot projectile"?
Perhaps they used "analog computers"? One example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELWAT
Re: Computers in Spaceflight: The NASA Experience
#10"NASA conducted five manned spaceflight programs: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle. The latter four programs produced spacecraft that had on-board digital computers" Wow, how did they launch something to the orbit without any computer on-board? Was it just like a "dumb slingshot projectile"?
Not so much. For Mercury, they used two IBM 7090's on a ground station. So the majority of calculations was done on the ground, with the vessel sending telemetry data.