Moon landing 1969: 4 KB RAM for the guidance computer is enough.
Moon landing 2026: Two instances of MS Outlook sort of started themselves on the guidance computer and we have no idea why.
Moon landing 2026: Two instances of MS Outlook sort of started themselves on the guidance computer and we have no idea why.
2026: lol we just realized there's a few million lines of extra code running but we can't figure out why
2026: We filled up our 2 TB flash. How do we get another?
2026: Too much shit, we need to design new toilets
"I used to want to be the first man to Mars. This has convinced me that, if we got to go on Apollo, I ain't interested" - Ken Mattingly, Apollo 16 Pilot (1972) [2]
[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop
[2] https://apollojournals.org/afj/ap16fj/24_Day9_Pt1.html#:~:te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Dev...
"... preparing for re-entry, adjusting azimuth, ... APPLY UPDATES AND REBOOT? APPLY UPDATES AND SHUT DOWN? QUEEN? UPDATES?"
How many KB is the flight controller?
Source for this running on the GN&C (guidance and nav) computer? Isn’t that built by the ESA?