Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Intelsat salvage mission Message-ID: Date: 27 Aug 90 15:19:17 GMT References: <2757@inews.intel.com> <1990Aug16.041135.17228@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Aug16.201103.7395@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal. Lines: 19 In-reply-to: kcarroll@zoo.toronto.edu's message of 16 Aug 90 20:11:03 GMT In article <1990Aug16.201103.7395@zoo.toronto.edu> kcarroll@zoo.toronto.edu (Kieran A. Carroll) writes: I seem to remember that some >components< of Apollo command modules were re-used; that is, after a CM returned from a mission, various electronics boxes and other components were removed, re-qualified, and integrated with a CM that was waiting to fly. A fairly minor example of pre-Shuttle reusability, but an interesting one. We flew the first phase of the F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire program using Apollo computers. I know that at least some of them were re-used, because one presentation to Dave Scott, when he left Dryden, was his Apollo computer. We'd moved on to AP-101s, a la the Shuttle. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot