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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Old fashioned control room
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Date: 6 Apr 89 21:19:04 GMT
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In article <191800014@trsvax> mike@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>This system has been beta-tested on every mission since the Challenger
>accident.  The "ODS" officer in Mission Control has (I believe) a large
>graphics-based Sun workstation which is supposed to constantly display 
>a representation of the instruments on the flight deck of the shuttle.

No.  That's a Masscomp, too.  I don't know if this is the same one, but
for STS-29, there was one sitting behind the left shoulder of the flight
director.

I could probably find out quite a bit about RTDS.  I'll look into it.

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University
			<phil@Rice.edu>