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Conference 7.286::space

Title:	Space Exploration
Notice:	Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:	PRAGMA::GRIFFIN

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	974
Total number of notes:	18843

683.0. "Computers at Mission Control" by PRAGMA::GRIFFIN (Dave Griffin) Mon Dec 10 1990 13:09

There is a nice article on the use of UNIX workstations within the
JSC Mission Control room in the latest (Dec 1990) issue of the
Communications of the ACM.

It shows how the systems are being updated to new color graphics systems
that are doing two things:

  - Reducing the load and training of flight controllers - allowing them
    to do more work with less people.

  - Capturing the experience of the elder flight controllers in expert
    systems, since many of the older engineers from the Apollo days are
    quickly nearing retirement.


- dave

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683.1 Tomayko's Computers in Space: Journeys with NASA MTWAIN::KLAES Keep Looking Up Thu Jun 30 1994 13:02 40

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683.1	Tomayko's Computers in Space: Journeys with NASA	MTWAIN::KLAES	Keep Looking Up	`Thu Jun 30 1994 13:02`	40
	Article: 2340 From: [email protected] (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) Newsgroups: sci.space.tech,alt.folklore.computers Subject: History of Space Computers: New Tomayko book Date: 28 Jun 94 13:23:55 -0600 Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Book Alert: I've just found a new book by James E.Tomayko, Computers in Space: Journeys with NASA. It's a history of the use of computers in NASA. People are always asking these newsgroups for information about spacecraft computers and such. I'm hoping this book will have some answers, but I haven't read it yet. Since it will probably be a while before I get to reading or reviewing it, I thought you'd like to know about it now. Alpha Books Indianapolis, IN 46290 ISBN 1-56761-463-9 $20.00 USA/$26.95 Canada Prof. Tomayko has previously published a history of NASA computers in an obscure place (Volume 18 of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering, published by Marcel Dekker). Alas, I've never yet gone to the trouble to locate a copy of this. I look forward to reading his work in a more accessible form. Looking at the fine print here, I see the manuscript editor for the book was Barry Childs-Helton, an Indianapolis friend. Whaddaya know. Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey \| The restaurant's architect Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory \| said every effort had been Bitnet: [email protected] \| made to build McDonald's Internet: [email protected] \| 15th outlet in Italy SPAN/Hepnet: 43009::HIGGINS \| in harmony with Pompeii. \| --Reuters story in Chicago \| Sun-Times, 18 June 92

Article: 2340
From: [email protected] (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: sci.space.tech,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: History of Space Computers: New Tomayko book
Date: 28 Jun 94 13:23:55 -0600
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Book Alert:

I've just found a new book by James E.Tomayko, *Computers in Space:
Journeys with NASA*.  It's a history of the use of computers in NASA.  

People are always asking these newsgroups for information about
spacecraft computers and such.  I'm hoping this book will have some
answers, but I haven't read it yet.  Since it will probably be a while
before I get to reading or reviewing it, I thought you'd like to know
about it now. 

Alpha Books
Indianapolis, IN 46290
ISBN 1-56761-463-9
$20.00 USA/$26.95 Canada

Prof. Tomayko has previously published a history of NASA computers in
an obscure place (Volume 18 of the *Encyclopedia of Computer Science
and Engineering*, published by Marcel Dekker).  Alas, I've never yet
gone to the trouble to locate a copy of this.  I look forward to
reading his work in a more accessible form.         

Looking at the fine print here, I see the manuscript editor for the
book was Barry Childs-Helton, an Indianapolis friend.  Whaddaya know.

Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey              | The restaurant's architect
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory  | said every effort had been
Bitnet:           [email protected]  | made to build McDonald's
Internet:       [email protected]  | 15th outlet in Italy 
SPAN/Hepnet:           43009::HIGGINS  | in harmony with Pompeii.
                                       | --Reuters story in *Chicago 
                                       |  Sun-Times*, 18 June 92