Sunday, May 22, 2011

Moon Buggy

Was watching Moon Machines on the Science Channel today. Here is a great quote from Alex Kosmala, Flight Software Developer, MIT Instrumentation Laboratory:

There were no specs. We made it up. And its always amazing to me, why was I allowed to program something that hadn't even been specified, that would be critical in assuring the success of the whole Apollo space program. I couldn't believe it. But, that's the way it was. We made it up as we went along.
Moon MachinesEpisode 1