always great to see this stuff that went on back in the day....glad we did not know what was going on behind closed doors, I thank my parents for not telling me, my father was a Colonel in the Army and he for sure knew what was happening.....and 3 of my neighbors were B-47 and B-52 Pilots.....growing up a few miles form a SAC base in Florida and seeing the B-47 and B-52's fly by daily was impressive, never knowing they had Atomic weapons on board......
I'm impressed they were using complex computerized logicistics back in the 1950s. In a world with e-commerce, FedEx and Amazon, overnight delivery, etc... we take this stuff for granted. But given the primitive state of computing and networking tech at the time, it's surprising they used it for something so critical.
You can, use topaz video enhance AI or gigapixel, run it through some filters in avisynth and then boost the FPS, change mono sound to dual mono stereo and change the equaliser
R&D coupled with IOC where engineers continue to improve the system as it's already being built. Sounds like SpaceX. When rocket R&D was under Air Force, those guys took risks and kept iterating. Today, NASA is extremely risk averse.
In the early days of NASA, a somewhat similar strategy of overlapping development and deployment was used. The Ranger, Surveyor, Gemini and Apollo programs to support the race to manned Moon landing overlapped and ran in parallel. Ranger and Surveyor flew on Air Force Atlas with Agena upper stage, which I believe served as a bus for CIA’s Corona missions. It took several tries for Ranger to even hit the Moon at all and it wasn’t until Ranger 6 that we got any pictures back. Ranger was developed by JPL which functioned like a captive contractor for NASA. Meanwhile Surveyor was under development at Hughes, languishing and way over budget. JPL was brought in to kick the project in the pants and get it on track. Surveyor 1 landed on the Moon successfully in 1966 even though it was considered to be a disposable engineering prototype. Gemini got its Titan booster from the ballistic missile program as well. NASA also did a lot of shooting from the hip with the Apollo program which killed three astronauts on the ground in the Apollo 1 rehearsal and almost resulted in the loss of Apollo 13 due to improperly designed ground test of a thermostatic switch in the service module cryo tank. The STS shuttle program also suffered two rather spectacular failures killing multiple astronauts in both accidents. It seems it wasn’t until the International Space Station days after the end of STS that crippling risk aversion gripped manned space flight. NASA is still doing a pretty good job at being creative and going out on engineering limbs with the robotic planetary missions. One mission to Mars crashed due to incorrect conversion between miles and km, but the other missions have been pretty successful. One of the early rover missions almost failed due to keeping too many pictures and data in flash memory. Engineers figured out how to remotely hack the CPU running VxWorks to trick the CPU into rebooting and running hacked code to clear the flash memory. Quite a few of the robotic missions have received firmware updates while en route as improvements were made while en route. I believe even the Voyagers received software updates while under way.
I was told in the 1970s that any missing equipment could be recorded as transfered to another base and it would fall off the records. The guy telling me this said everything imaginable was missing from inventory including jet engines and trucks.
