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From: brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Mission Control
Message-ID: <7643@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 3 Dec 90 20:41:06 GMT
References: <2194@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, California
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xvm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Lucas) writes:

>I apologized if this has been bounced around before, but is
>the image, generated at Mission control, that shows the shuttle
>and its position relative to the world computer generated or is
>some kind of projection?  We have seen it on Space Select and 
>were curious.

>Thanks in advance 

>Another message from Joseph Lucas
>xvm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

The image of the shuttle is a slide projection of its calculated location.
They are currently redoing the computers to provide for real-time computer
graphics.