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The flight computer aboard the space shuttle has less than one percent of the power of an Xbox 360 game console. Astronauts load programs directing the phases of a mission - liftoff, orbit ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...
STS-43 astronaut James Adamnson uses a Mac Portable computer on Space Shuttle Atlantis in August 1991. The First Laptop in Space. Astronauts have been using external computing and calculating ...
The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The pilots on NASA's last space shuttle flight fixed another one of their main computers Friday after it failed and set off an alarm that shattered their sleep. NASA ...
The glitch is affecting the backup computer controller on Discovery'sMain Engine No. 3, but further details have not yet been released. During the shuttle's main engine checkouts, the backup ...
NASA updates on shuttle mission. In a bit of space trivia, Drew became the world's 200th spacewalker when he emerged from the 220-mile-high complex. The first was Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov in ...
The space shuttle carries five onboard computers for redundancy, with one always designated as a backup. The four other computers work together to make up the orbiter's primary computer systems ...