What's Hawt: "If you were flying into outer space, you would expect to travel in a space shuttle powered by tons of fancy and modern computers to ensure a safe journey to and from space. It turns out this was not the case."
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Engineers expect to lose contact with the private US moon lander Odysseus on Tuesday, cutting short the mission after its sideways touchdown last week.
NASA announced Tuesday that a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft intended to try out a skewed lunar orbit had lost contact, but agency engineers are confident
I remember hearing someone say that my wrist watch had more technology in it than did the space shuttle lol!
Fail safes? Guess that means they had extra floppy disks D:RUN_LAUNCH_FAIL lmao its time for an upgrade...
The process never changed. Just because thats what the computer onboard had doesn't mean they don't have other computers. They do have other computers.
The less technology you have the better, it means less computer melt-downs from magnetic interference in Space.
Fascinating, one of the greatest invention for 21st century, space shutting only consume 1mb.. I can't believe it.