by Marion M.
In 1977, I began working for Lockheed
Martin in Houston, Texas, as an on-site computer programmer at the NASA Johnson
Space Center.
I wrote and maintained a computer program
that processed real-time telemetry data from the Space Shuttle. It
decommutated, converted to engineering units and displayed the results on a
monitor.
I was in in the Shuttle Avionics
Integration Laboratory (SAIL) running the program for a NASA engineer on
January 28, 1986, when the computer monitor went blank due to the Challenger
disaster.
Thus began many hours of rerunning the
program with recorded tape input and printing the last seconds of selected data
items for analysis by investigative personnel.
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| Thanks Lockheed Martin, it was a wonderful ride! |
