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Two similar incidents from my career:

https://github.com/rongarret/gll-mag-patch/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ&t=2340s

(Also recounted in https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/)

It's really frustrating when you need to fix old code and the dev environment is gone. Some of that stuff just isn't replaceable, or it's a whole bunch of extra work, as you had to do to get back to square one.

It isn't 100% clear from the Voyager documentaries how much of the dev environments were destroyed/lost between projects being canceled. I tried to get the Voyager source but it isn't classified as a government record that would be subject to FOIA, which is frustrating. (nothing to do with security, just IP)

In my experience, pretty much anything relating to spaceflight is gonna be lumped under ITAR and restricted from general disclosure.

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