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NASA released many old manuals to the public, including several Space Shuttle PDFs. Flying the space shuttle is more like programming a flight computer and che
by frik 12y ago
NASA released many old manuals to the public, including several Space Shuttle PDFs.
Flying the space shuttle is more like programming a flight computer and checking the flight data. There are some manual overwrites, that's the challenging part.
e.g. http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/390651main_shuttle_crew_operations_manual.pdf http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/390651main_shuttle_c...
- schoen 12y agoWow, that manual is a lot more detailed than the popularization. Isn't there also a flying-it-like-a-glider part after re-entry? But I guess that's a pretty small fraction of the mission.