When I was a grad student in Physics I worked at an accelerator lab where we had an old NASA high voltage engineering unit. The control panel was completely laced, every wire had a marker on it every foot or so, every end was perfectly terminated. Being an electronics tech, it was a dream to work on this thing... Wish I had pictures. But as others have noted, it takes a great deal of time to do that right when you are installing.

In the author’s defense they mentioned the NASA standard, and that guide— while legendary— isn't a "lacing" guide. Of the 50+ images, only 2 show lacing (acceptable v. unacceptable), and the rest is spot tying, zip tying or other harnessing. Always nice to see the link though

> Some organizations have in-house standards to which cable lacing must conform, for example NASA specifies its cable lacing techniques in chapter 9 of NASA-STD-8739.4.

It's right there in the article.

See also this guide, reproduced from a book "Workmanship and Design Practices for Electronic Equipment", published by the direction of the chief of the Bureau of Naval Weapons, December, 1962. Included are some illustrations of jigs for creating laced wiring harnesses.

https://www.dairiki.org/hammond/cable-lacing-howto/

I am happy to know if any NASA spaceships are intercepted by aliens that they'll have good quality lacing to represent us.

I'm sorry, I actually meant to include your link when I submitted this. NASA's wiring documents are beyond amazing.

Use this and the other NASA workmanship guides all the time. A really great resource for building spacecraft.

Ehhmm, thank you very much for the link!! Wow!