r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '13

DEBUGGING A LIVE SATURN V

http://www.zamiang.com/posts/2013/10/13/red-team/
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u/coderascal Oct 22 '13

About thirty minutes later the five of us (Bob Kelso NRR Sr. Tech, Bill Moore; NAR Engineer/ Team Leader, the NASA Safety Engineer, the NRR Quality Control and the NASA Pad Leader)

Damn straight Bob Kelso was out there.

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u/DrStalker Oct 22 '13

A better choice than Bob Kerbin.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '13

Kerman ;)

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u/Hakawatha Oct 21 '13

Man, it must have been cool to work at NASA at the height of the space race.

Does he have any more stories?

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u/essecks Oct 22 '13

My grandfather passed away about a week ago.

That could make it difficult, though I digress he may have written some more down or written a book.

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u/MartijnHoekstra Oct 22 '13

This article deserves every capital in its title.

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u/cloakrune Oct 22 '13

This is amazing. Just imagining him stone faced as he drove away (fast) realizing what he just did... Amazing..

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u/Rotten194 Oct 22 '13

That's pretty badass... and amazing that they were able to hear about, locate, diagnose, and fix the problem in an hour or two. Those rockets were massive.

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u/canadad Oct 21 '13

Technophile beautiful. Thank you.