10-11-2013, 03:50 AM
I plan to see the movie eventually--I'm looking forward to it.
This thread reminded me of when I lived and worked near the Cape where they launched the shuttles. One of my patients, who was a NASA employee, claimed that NASA always took the lowest bidder on computer systems (this was 1985-1989), and as a result they had compatibility issues with software, etc.
Whenever there was a launch, everyone in the facility, patients and staff alike, went out to see it; it was just a light ascending into the sky from our distance, but still...
The first one I witnessed was the Challenger. Everyone who had previously seen launches immediately knew something was wrong from the plumes of smoke in the air.
This thread reminded me of when I lived and worked near the Cape where they launched the shuttles. One of my patients, who was a NASA employee, claimed that NASA always took the lowest bidder on computer systems (this was 1985-1989), and as a result they had compatibility issues with software, etc.
Whenever there was a launch, everyone in the facility, patients and staff alike, went out to see it; it was just a light ascending into the sky from our distance, but still...
The first one I witnessed was the Challenger. Everyone who had previously seen launches immediately knew something was wrong from the plumes of smoke in the air.