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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

When you positively want get home, you check, then double check your maths with a #HP41C or two.

#NASA / #Shuttle #STS7 / #Astronaut #SallyRide / #HewlettPackard #HP #HP41 #calculator

“This is an HP-41C pocket calculator, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, that has flown on nine Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s. NASA purchased it from a local store in Houston, and installed special software on it for each mission. Mission critical computing was still done by the Shuttle on-board computers, but pocket” calculators found many other uses in space. This calculator could have performed critical re-entry calculations if the main computers failed.

This HP-41C was used by Astronaut Sally Ride and several other astronauts on a total of nine Shuttle missions.”

source https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-hand-held-hp-41/nasm_A19890003000
“This is an HP-41C pocket calculator, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, that has flown on nine Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s. NASA purchased it from a local store in Houston, and installed special software on it for each mission. Mission critical computing was still done by the Shuttle on-board computers, but pocket” calculators found many other uses in space. This calculator could have performed critical re-entry calculations if the main computers failed. This HP-41C was used by Astronaut Sally Ride and several other astronauts on a total of nine Shuttle missions.” source https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-hand-held-hp-41/nasm_A19890003000
“This is an HP-41C pocket calculator, manufactured by Hewlett-Packard, that has flown on nine Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s. NASA purchased it from a local store in Houston, and installed special software on it for each mission. Mission critical computing was still done by the Shuttle on-board computers, but pocket” calculators found many other uses in space. This calculator could have performed critical re-entry calculations if the main computers failed. This HP-41C was used by Astronaut Sally Ride and several other astronauts on a total of nine Shuttle missions.” source https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/calculator-hand-held-hp-41/nasm_A19890003000
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