360° view of Discovery's cockpit

[stonesie]

https://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html


Middle/bottom, even NASA use insulating tape and a marker pen

[CaNsA]

And a dell laptop

Very cool pic

[gixerstu]

You cant help thinking
What does this button do.

[CaNsA]

All the buttons are linked to the kitchen so the pilots can tell their space bitches what to cook

[Jayy]

If you can fly a plane in Microsoft Flight Simulator, you can fly one of them things piece of piss.

[Hetzer]

They have paper cut-outs on all the MFDs.

Overall the thing looks about as modern and technologically sophisticated as a jukebox. ET must be in stitches.
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[Kickstart]

[fatpies]

[Ariel Badger]

I believe they used a prehistoric 5.5 inch floppy disk drive on a lot of the thing and sourced replacements on Ebay.
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[Frost]

Most space stuff is CMOS rather than TTL. Stuff has to be tested and verified as space qualified to prove it can withstand radiation, cosmic rays etc. The space industry is ultra conservative in their use of stuff which is why the mars rovers used 1 megapixel cameras and your phone has an 8megapixel camera

[rac3r]

Where's the ON button?
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[Pernig]

Is that the inside of a series 3 Disco then? Ours wasn't that posh inside.
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[WildGoose]

If anyone has more than a passing interest in the Space Shuttle, this book is well, well worth a read.

https://covers.openlibrary.org/w/id/474969-L.jpg

Takes you through the whole thing from the point of view of one of the 'new breed' at the beginning of the shuttle program, trying to integrate with all the post Apollo heroes and stuff, including all the shuttle disasters and the reasons for. It makes me some very enlightening, and entertaining reading. There is a very human touch to it.

One of my favourite space books thus far.
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[-LG-]

Would have thought the seats would at least look compfy!
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[chris-red]

Most planes even modern fighter jets are at least 15 years out of date by the time they come into service. It takes so long to design and test that they can't be up to the minute. I imagine space stuff will be even further behind and testing must take ages. Bottom line if it ain't broke don't fix it. If you know piece of kit X works them why take something newer that hasn't had as much testing there isn't much support up there if something goes tits up!
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[SlimRick]

A friend has just created a 737 flight deck panorama:

https://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=19b30616-6f7c-4671-bc36-1ece49bda947

[Louise]

Impressive

[carlosthejack...]

Very cool pic. Space tape? Been noticed before!
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[MaybeGuy]

Who else found the man?
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[The Wobbly Orange]

the 15 year old GPS in the helicopters still require cryptographic codes to be uploaded each flight just to access the satellites with any degree of accuracy. (From back in the days when only military had access to gps).

Not only that but each memory block (affectionately called "the brick") can only hold enough map data for a few hundred square miles.

Thing is your tomtom is probably more accurate and certainly a hell of a lot easier to use. Yet when compared to the MH60-R like the US use the aircraft still looks like something from tomorrows world. (by comparison)
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[Walloper]

I read that the same electronics are used in Harley Davidson motorcycles (Cement Mixers)
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