![]() Image: Space shuttle Discovery heads to space after lifting off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its final flight to the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission. of 2003, a technician tests a monitor on the console of the newly installed "glass cockpit" or MEDS. ![]() ![]() Image: During Discovery's Orbiter Major Modifications period in Aug. 2005, a United Space Alliance technician works on the flight deck of Endeavour in Orbiter Processingįacility-2 as the spacecraft undergoes major modifications, which included installation of the the state-of-the-art "glass Image: In April of 1999, STS-101 Commander James Halsell (left) and STS-98 Commander Ken Cockrell (right) pause for a photo while looking over the recently installed MEDS in Atlantis' cockpit. Image: A new full-color, flat panel MEDS, is shown in the cockpit of Atlantis after the spacecraft returned from its modification period in Palmdale, Calif. Subsystem (MEDS) or "glass cockpit." Photo credit: NASA/KSC for its Orbiter Maintenance Down Period and installation of the new Multifunction Electronic Display 11, 1997, Atlantis atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft at Kennedy, was prepared for its ferry flight to and with the moon landings, it was the first time I got to stay up all night to watch TV." "I remember Apollo 8 going around the moon and getting up at night and going outside with binoculars trying to look to see if I could see anything. "I was old enough, around 8 or 9, to remember Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and I thought that was the neatest thing I've ever seen," Uyematsu said. And Roy Uyematsu, staff engineer with United Space Alliance's Data Processing System group, was there when it happened.įor 22 years Uyematsu has worked on the shuttle flight crew computers - a dream job for him since he was a youngster. But the time came when upgrades needed to be made to make the orbiters safer and easier to fly. Computers have been an integral part of NASA's space shuttles since its conception.
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