"OM" om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote
in message ...
...Just to give the group a new topic to chew on and get things back
to normalcy a bit, here's one that hit me while I'm watching my ripped
copies of E2M on continuous play during today's system rebuilds(*) and
updates to XP: When going "around the room" in the MOCR for final
go/no-go for any particular major mission phase, was there a set order
in which each flight controller was polled by the Flight Director?
From what I've seen, the only common point was that the Flight Surgeon
appears to be the last one polled prior to giving the nod to Capcom to
give the go order.

Guys that shows what they thought of Surgeon. :-)



...On a side note, at these decision points, were all flight
controllers usually polled, even if their particular area of coverage
didn't necessarily involve the action to be taken?

My understanding is yes they did. I believe we discussed this question
earlier at one point when someone wanted to know why Recovery was polled at
launch.



Food for thought, kids. Someone tell Derek he's invited to dine in,
eh?

(*) So long Windows 2000, and thank you for the stability you've given
me for just under four years on the four machines I still had you
installed on. Regardless of what the Linux geeks want to claim, except
for the infamous "disappearing CD-ROM" bug, you did what I expected of
you.

Tell me about it. I have servers that have in some cases had uptime
measured in years. (A move to a new data center changed one of them...
though I was tempted to pull the "Frogger" Episode from Seinfield and keep
it booted while moving.)


OM

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