Comment by kube-system
14 days ago
And ultimately they have a lot more important things to be doing then learning a different email client than the one they use at their desk on earth. This is an email client on a laptop, not a navigation system.
14 days ago
And ultimately they have a lot more important things to be doing then learning a different email client than the one they use at their desk on earth. This is an email client on a laptop, not a navigation system.
No they don’t. They’re our best and brightest, and they train for years at their one, important job, which is to use the system they’re given.
The mission of the astronauts on board is to test the damn Orion spacecraft in preparation for a human landing on the moon.
> NASA flight controller and instructor Robert Frost explained the reasoning plainly in a post on Quora (via Forbes). “A Windows laptop is used for the same reasons a majority of people that use computers use Windows. It is a system that people are already familiar with. Why make them learn a new operating system,” he reportedly wrote.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/technology/space-exploration/nasa-...
Maybe he should have designed the rest of the controls to look like the cockpit of 2003 Toyota Camry. It is a system that people are already familiar with. And actually reliable.
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