Hence the famous joke at NASA that you get to launch the rocket when the documentation if piled up would be taller than the rocket itself.
...all of which is just an excuse to show this great picture of Margaret Hamilton [1] lead developer on the Apollo guidance system standing next to (and slightly shorter than) the printouts of the source code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton_-_resto...
Counterpoint: You can get close enough that you can run a probe in space for 60 years.
Some probes have had major failures that JPL was able to work around with a software update.
True, but: different budget per unit of code produced.
Hence the famous joke at NASA that you get to launch the rocket when the documentation if piled up would be taller than the rocket itself.
...all of which is just an excuse to show this great picture of Margaret Hamilton [1] lead developer on the Apollo guidance system standing next to (and slightly shorter than) the printouts of the source code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton_-_resto...
[1] Who was admittedly quite short apparently
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