Labels:text | electronics | screenshot | software | website OCR: COMPUTER POWER SPACE TECHNOLOGY 10 MODERN SPACE EXPLORATION would not be possible without computer power. Computers control spacecraft, checking thousands of parts, warning ground control and crew if anything is not working correctly, and calculating the craft's course. In the early days of spaceflight, the computers used were much less powerful than those used today; in fact, the computers that controlled the USA's Apollo craft were about as powerful as a modern personal computer. THE SPACE SHUTTLE'S Probes traveling far from Earth carry computers CONTROL PANELS that are programmed to direct cameras and take The computers that control the Shuttle measurements. The information sent back by are among the probes is converted from faint radio signals into most advanced useful information by c ...
