NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software Engineering Confirms

Re:NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software E... by danso on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:40AM (#11928544)

Important addendum: Node is not for real-time safety-critical systems https://mobile.twitter.com/d4rw1n1s7/status/7430105947862507...

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Re:NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software E... by wampler on Saturday June 18, 2016 @09:42AM (#11928550)

"Not in the way you are probably thinking, but used for ground ops leading to spacewalks, checks and balances obv" - Collin Estes

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Re:NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software E... by s_q_b on Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:38AM (#11928800)

There's a whole bunch of space system support software that isn't hard scientific code (which is handled by a totally different team), but rather for specific management-related tasks. This code is written in all the web technologies and frameworks one would expect.

Edit: I'm wondering about the downvotes, since I've actually written such software.

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Re:NASA Uses Node.js in Space Suits – Director of Software E... by udkl on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:42PM (#11943134)

lol, someone commented : "A NASA investigation into the death reports that the astronaut was killed by a leak -- not oxygen, but memory."

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