Farewell to the space shuttle

Phillip A. Laplante

doi:10.1109/MITP.2012.36

Farewell to the space shuttle

Phillip A. Laplante

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The US Space Shuttle program helped start many careers and companies and initiate countless breakthroughs in computing hardware and software, medicine, life sciences, materials research, propulsion, and electromechanical technologies. The author looks at the program's legacy and ponders how we'll fill the void left behind. This department is part of a special issue on NASA contributions to IT.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	6171961
Pages (from-to)	10-12
Number of pages	3
Journal	IT Professional
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2012.36
State	Published - Mar 2012

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Software
Hardware and Architecture
Computer Science Applications

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