2024-11-02

[EN] Real-time Programming

Picture via Facebook group At the Controls.

When the Apollo 13 flight went into emergency mode, it became necessary to program the unexpected trajectory calculations to return the spacecraft under these extraordinary conditions. That was real-time programming under pressure with the hardest possible deadline!

Frances Northcutt was one of the people who did the work.
This wasn't her only achievement: see

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