TRS-80 controls the Soyuz ??? The Hell ???

"doodon2whls" (doodon2whls) 09/25/2013 at 23:11 • Filed to: Spacelopnik, soyuz, ISS

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Uhhh... This might come as a shock to many of you, but the GUI for the Soyuz TMA-10M vehicle is pretty basic....

Could you bring yourself to trust this technology to blast you into space and safely return you home ? No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO !

Kudos, space pioneers and astronauts... Kudos...

The Suyuz TMA-10M docked @ the ISS @ 2245hrs EDT and the hatches will be opened @ 2400hrs EDT. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Amazing stuff, this rocket science...

Photos courtesy of NASA's Facebook page.

Dunnik > doodon2whls 09/25/2013 at 23:19

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OttoMaddox > doodon2whls 09/25/2013 at 23:31

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Balls. The simpler a machine is, the fewer things there are to go wrong. That's the simple, rugged beauty of Russian technology.

And how sophisticated was the computer on Apollo 11? Less so than on a 15 year old car.

doodon2whls > OttoMaddox 09/25/2013 at 23:34

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I know. I KNOW !!!

I am in this paradoxical think mode right now w.r.t. this. On one hand, I appreciate the simplicity of these incredible machines. On the other hand, I can't comprehend how they make it all work without supercomputing power. I mean, they are flying into freakin' space !!! And then (crash) landing safely on earth again !!!!

It's just mind boggling

promoted by the color red > doodon2whls 09/25/2013 at 23:40

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On a related note, I remember seeing a picture from Goodwood 1999 where the WDC-winning McLaren-Mercedes F1 car had an '80s-era laptop plugged into it.

ASheep > doodon2whls 09/25/2013 at 23:56

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Why would they need a complicated GUI? If you introduce colours, you introduce points of failure. The more complexity you add to a system, the more shit can go wrong. The Soyuz launch system has been doing a damn good job since 1967, and will keep doing so for the forseeable future.

It'll probably concern you that the main flight computers of the B-52, B-1B lancer, F15, and the Space Shuttles all have less than 1MB of memory, and run at single figure MHZ speeds.

doodon2whls > ASheep 09/26/2013 at 00:03

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See my reply to Otto... Understand/appreciate the simplicity... The FMEA for those air/spacecraft is mind boggling as it is with simple computers... Still makes me shake my head in disbelief...