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Post #49,494 by altmann 8/15/02 3:18:04 PM Reply	Well I ... helped write the payload control software for [link\|http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~sspp/gas/sts/sts-90.htm#G744\|G-744], a shuttle [link\|http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~sspp/gas/\|Get Away Special] payload. Not much really. Just a take a reading, take a picture, wait loop on a custom 68HC11 computer. Tis the sum total of my embedded programming experience. Most of what I did was manufacturing and CAD work. I also worked on [link\|http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~sspp/gas/sts/sts-57.html#G399\|G-399] and [link\|http://www.wff.nasa.gov/~sspp/gas/sts/sts-64.html#G178\|G-178] (that's me 3rd from the left). It looks like I should document this somewhere. The old page for the project seems to be gone now. -- Chris Altmann
Post #49,504 by a6l6e6x 8/15/02 4:06:13 PM Reply	A GAS, :) Cool! Alex "Television: chewing gum for the eyes." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Post #49,663 by altmann 8/17/02 2:37:49 AM 8/17/02 2:42:22 AM Reply	Yup. It was a GAS. It was an interesting time. It kept me at a 2 year college for "somewhat" more than 2 years. I got to see the rollout of the shuttle Endeavour, and later saw its first launch (with one of our payloads on board). I also saw another shuttle on the pad up close. Impressive. On that flight, we did the payload integration (just into a can, we didn't see in the cargo bay or anything) in what was apparently the building used to work on the radioisotope generators for one of the deep-space probes (Pioneer?) We were working on a microsatellite design intended to piggyback on a Delta launch, but funding fell through and we were unlikely to be able to raise the $12 million launch fee with bake sales and T-shirts. A [link\|http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/96/mpfsnsr.html\|sun sensor] for the satellite was used to ground test Mars Pathfinder's antenna -- Chris Altmann Edited by altmann Aug. 17, 2002, 02:42:22 AM EDT Expand All History

Voyagers, Still Going - (deSitter) - (17) - Aug. 13, 2002, 10:12:38 PM EDT

For sure, the best investment of my tax money. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Aug. 13, 2002, 10:40:24 PM EDT

One Thing... - (deSitter) - Aug. 17, 2002, 10:18:10 PM EDT

Someone had a PW - (Ashton) - (2) - Aug. 14, 2002, 05:48:36 AM EDT

Ayuh - (Yendor) - Aug. 14, 2002, 10:46:02 AM EDT

Thanks - worked. - (Ashton) - Aug. 14, 2002, 05:46:49 PM EDT

Truly an example of the best of humanity... -NT - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 14, 2002, 11:48:32 AM EDT

I wonder what OS it run? - (orion) - (10) - Aug. 14, 2002, 07:52:58 PM EDT

Re: I wonder what OS it run? - (wharris2) - Aug. 14, 2002, 09:39:21 PM EDT

Re: I wonder what OS it run? - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 14, 2002, 10:08:46 PM EDT

A friend of mine was a programmer during apollo 13 - (boxley) - (7) - Aug. 14, 2002, 11:33:57 PM EDT

Heck, I did some work on the ground control system for MOL. - (a6l6e6x) - (6) - Aug. 15, 2002, 02:22:12 PM EDT

You weren't in Pittsburg in October 1973 too, were you? >:-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2002, 02:57:18 PM EDT

Nah, never agian. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 15, 2002, 04:07:32 PM EDT

Well I ... - (altmann) - (2) - Aug. 15, 2002, 03:18:04 PM EDT

A GAS, :) Cool! -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Aug. 15, 2002, 04:06:13 PM EDT

Yup. It was a GAS. - (altmann) - Aug. 17, 2002, 02:42:22 AM EDT

Good 'ole 360's - (wharris2) - Aug. 15, 2002, 07:46:33 PM EDT

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