12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
5:36 a.m.
On Mar 11, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
See also http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
We took the virtual AGC and gave it a virtual spacecraft.
I can tell you that colossus and luminary worked firsthand, because I have personally ran
it for its original purpose. We use NASA's original and unmodified checklists and
procedures where they are available. We even send telemetry in the original format, so in
theory you could hook this up to the old MCC and drive the displays.
Most of our problems are document archaeology and reverse-engineering to fill holes
created by missing or lost documents. Almost none of the mission control documentation was
kept, we haven't found any of the ground software, and the Saturn flight software
seems to have been lost.