By the time the space shuttle started flying in 1981, the techniques to keep software reliable had advanced. With the accelerated improvements in computer hardware that followed the introduction ...

There was even a day not too long ago when printers appeared to be going the way of the dodo; remember the “paperless office” craze? But then, printer manufacturers invented printers so cheap ...

One effect of the short was a loss of power to the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) controllers. According to Hale: "The A computer on the Center SSME lost power, never to be recovered.

Last year, St. Cloud Inventor Felicity-John Pederson had a replica of the Space Shuttle moved from Florida to Minnesota with plans to use it as part of a museum. We’ve learned Pederson no longer ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...