It's incredibly funny that despite the sophisticated high-bandwidth data channels available to them, they ended up using a half-duplex modem connection to a cus

It's incredibly funny that despite the sophisticated high-bandwidth data channels available to them, they ended up using a half-duplex modem connection to a custom ground station. It still feels like our world is full of hacks like that, maybe more than ever -- "stupid", and shouldn't work, but do.