Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!mcvax!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!ucsd!chem.ucsd.edu!sd From: sd@chem.ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle Computer Info? Message-ID: <462@chem.ucsd.EDU> Date: 5 May 89 22:25:56 GMT References: <24055@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: sdempsey@ucsd.edu (Steve Dempsey) Organization: Chemistry Dept, UC San Diego Lines: 18 The September 1984 edition of Communications of the ACM (vol. 27, no. 9) contains several articles on the Shuttle's computer hardware and software. The titles are: Case Study: The Space Shuttle Primary Computer System Special Section on Computing in Space Development and Application of NASA's First Standard Spacecraft Computer Design, Development, Integration: Space Shuttle Primary Flight Software System Architecture of the Space Shuttle Primary Avionics Software System The cover photograph is a remote view of the Challenger taken from the Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1) with the entire background filled with clouds. This picture alone is worth digging out the journal.