NASA focusing beyond space shuttle era

Microgravity Research in the Space Shuttle Era

NASA dedicated over 20 shuttle missions to microgravity research as a primary payload, and many more missions carried microgravity research experiments as secondary payloads. The space agency’s microgravity research strived to increase understanding of the effects of gravity on biological, chemical, and physical systems. Living systems benefited as well. Cells, as they adapted to microgravity, ...

NESTA: NASA Engineering Shuttle Telemetry Agent

The Spaceport Processing Systems Branch at NASA Kennedy Space Center has developed and deployed an agent based tool to monitor the Space Shuttle’s ground processing telemetry stream. The application, the NASA Engineering Shuttle Telemetry Agent, increases situational awareness for system and hardware engineers during ground processing of the Shuttle’s subsystems. The agent provides autonomous m...

Successful application of software reliability engineering for the NASA Space Shuttle (Abstract)

Space Shuttle Flight SofhYare Application The Space Shuttle Primary Avionics Software Subsystem (PASS) represents a successful integration of many of the computer industry’s most advanced software engineering practices and approaches. Beginning in the late 1970’s this software development and maintenance project has evolved one of the world’s most muture sofiware processes applying the principl...

Understanding IV & V in a Safety Critical and Complex Evolutionary Environment: The NASA Space Shuttle Program

1 This work has been performed as NASA Subcontract No. 93-393B-FUSA from the NASA/IVV facility in Fairmont, WV to the Fraunhofer Center, Maryland. ABSTRACT The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an internationally recognized leader in space science and exploration. NASA recognizes the inherent risk associated with space exploration; however, NASA makes every reasonable effort to m...

Space Shuttle Technical Conference