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[Bitmap Frogs]

With artemis now close to its first launch and with a timeline to "boots on the moon" I thoght it'd be interesting to some gaffers to check out Nasa's standards for equipment.

This link is the inspector's cheat sheet with mostly the pictorial elements - the actual manuals are on the site.

You'll see what kind of soldering, cable conexions, element mounting, etc is either approved or not approved.

Inspectors

 

[Maiden Voyage]

We hired a dude from the aerospace industry. His first day he found something like 30 nuts & bolts and demanded to know where they belong. The industry requires the highest standards for good reason.

 

[dr_octagon]

No Tritianium Metalized Electrode Face components? Good luck when the polarity needs reversing.

I have nothing useful to contribute (again). Danke.

 

[AJUMP23]

I have some friends that work for NASA. Two of my college professors were former Apollo computer programmers.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I have some friends that work for NASA. Two of my college professors were former Apollo computer programmers.

That's super cool and I am much jealous, btw.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

We hired a dude from the aerospace industry. His first day he found something like 30 nuts & bolts and demanded to know where they belong. The industry requires the highest standards for good reason.

If you have unlabeled/uncategorized stuff laying around in the contract lab or med device industries during an audit, yep, that's a finding bro. You're required to follow Good Manufacturing Practices and international standards for quality control and the like. Leaving expired/unlabeled/loose shit around is the first thing an auditor sees during an inspection and will rightfully get your ass chewed out.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

One of my buddies worked for the company that makes the Canadarm. It was amazing talking to him way back and he'd tell me all these high tech space equipment run on the most basic UNIX kind of programming with the most basic low powered specs out there.

The less room for error the better. So no Windows or any kind of bloatware.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

If you have unlabeled/uncategorized stuff laying around in the contract lab or med device industries during an audit, yep, that's a finding bro. You're required to follow Good Manufacturing Practices and international standards for quality control and the like. Leaving expired/unlabeled/loose shit around is the first thing an auditor sees during an inspection and will rightfully get your ass chewed out.

I'm not in the aerospace industry myself. Food & Bev. We've got all kinds of loose nuts rambling about.

 

[Bragr]

I work at NASA, but only at night when no one is looking. You can't disprove it.

 

[dr_octagon]

I work at NASA, but only at night when no one is looking. You can't disprove it.

Alright Matt Damon, make sure you finish mopping the floor after you solved the math problem.

 

[Tieno]

One of my buddies worked for the company that makes the Canadarm. It was amazing talking to him way back and he'd tell me all these high tech space equipment run on the most basic UNIX kind of programming with the most basic low powered specs out there.

The less room for error the better. So no Windows or any kind of bloatware.

That reminds me of an article I read a few years ago. It's back from 1996 and is about how they wrote the software for the space shuttle. It's pretty famous among software developers. I love reading it.

They Write the Right Stuff

As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command.

www.fastcompany.com

"The database is the software base. There is the software. And then there are the databases beneath the software, two enormous databases, encyclopedic in their comprehensiveness.

One is the history of the code itself — with every line annotated, showing every time it was changed, why it was changed, when it was changed, what the purpose of the change was, what specifications documents detail the change. Everything that happens to the program is recorded in its master history. The genealogy of every line of code — the reason it is the way it is — is instantly available to everyone."

 

[Bragr]

Alright Matt Damon, make sure you finish mopping the floor after you solved the math problem.

 

[Kilau]

I'm not in the aerospace industry myself. Food & Bev. We've got all kinds of loose nuts rambling about.

Sounds like the waitstaff.

 

[ntropy]

if only they'd inspected their O-rings

 

[TheDreadBaron]

One of my buddies worked for the company that makes the Canadarm. It was amazing talking to him way back and he'd tell me all these high tech space equipment run on the most basic UNIX kind of programming with the most basic low powered specs out there.

The less room for error the better. So no Windows or any kind of bloatware.

Imagine right in the middle of transferring some 50 million dollar piece of equipment you get a blue screen and have to send someone outside to unplug and plug it back in

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

if only they'd inspected their O-rings

Oof.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

You can strip wires with lasers?

 

[ape2man]

One of my buddies worked for the company that makes the Canadarm. It was amazing talking to him way back and he'd tell me all these high tech space equipment run on the most basic UNIX kind of programming with the most basic low powered specs out there.

The less room for error the better. So no Windows or any kind of bloatware.

i heard all new stuff runs on a simplified version of javascript. no joke. Like the James Webb Telescope runs on this simplified javascript engine

 

[Punished Miku]

That new telescope launch had something like 300+ points of total mission failure if any one of those elements failed. Guess they got them all.

 

[Porcile]

NASA Inspector: Looks like there's a potential issue with the Component Installation-Dual In-Line Packages in D

NASA Scientist: D?

NASA Inspector: Deez nuts and bolts

 

[jason10mm]

And you wonder why a space wrench costs $250,000......

 

[Tieno]

And you wonder why a space wrench costs $250,000......

Because it can't fail in a universe where everything fails all the time.

It's amazing that there exists a space on earth where we fight this to most insane level we can achieve

 

[Gp1]

Nasa is basically the mother of modern project management as we known.

You can still find some very interesting documentation in their website if you know were to look.

 

[Maiden Voyage]

And you wonder why a space wrench costs $250,000......

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Nasa is basically the mother of modern project management as we known.

You can still find some very interesting documentation in their website if you know were to look.

Link?

 

[Gp1]

Link?

I have to take a look at my work notebook. But I remember that I found some very interesting material related to construction project management.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I have to take a look at my work notebook. But I remember that I found some very interesting material related to construction project management.

Would be great. People don't realise that NASA cannot just go "let's build shit and see what happens".

 

[Catphish]

NASA Inspector: Looks like there's a potential issue with the Component Installation-Dual In-Line Packages in D

NASA Scientist: D?

NASA Inspector: Deez nuts and bolts

 

[akimbo009]

Nasa is basically the mother of modern project management as we known.

You can still find some very interesting documentation in their website if you know were to look.

You mean you cancel come up with random ideas, and just end up on the Moon?

Pretty remarkable agency, all things measured.

 

[baphomet]

Yea, pretty much par for the course in aerospace.

I'm working on a space project alongside NASA currently. Not so much avionics which the stuff in the op is more related to, but the composites and structures portion.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Reminds me of the military standard for aerospace when I was a young lad learning how to make the electrical harness just before 911 fucked the industry..

They don't mess around

But as much as craftsmanship is critical, it's the engineering side at NASA that is mind blowing.