Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!denelcor!lmc From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Re: LAUNCH Message-ID: <305@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 08:43:00 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.305 Posted: Tue Feb 7 08:43:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:24:40 EST References: <927@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, CO Lines: 14 I'm not really sure myself how they navigate a space walk, but I watched Vance Brand and several other astronauts navigate a mockup of the Teleoperator Retrieval System (you know, the one that was supposed to save Skylab) about 4 years ago. We programmed the worst case coning motion into the Skylab, and those people could hit the docking ring without hesitating, time after time. (The TRS was a rocket motor carrying a TV camera and a docking ring, controlled from the Shuttle flight deck with two joysticks for 6 degree-of-freedom control.) The champion at the time was the astronaut who was pilot for the US-USSR docking - seems he spent a year with the controls glued in his hand. Since most TV games have two degrees of freedom, I guess you can see the point. -- Lyle McElhaney (hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc