Comment by relaxing
14 days ago
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.
14 days ago
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.
Toyota actually is involved in the Artemis program. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Cruiser
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