Programmer For Endeavor Now Crew On Final Flight 68
Lucas123 writes "Greg Chamitoff, a computer programmer who wrote software for NASA's Endeavour spacecraft, will be blasting off on shuttle's final 15-day flight as a mission specialist on Friday. Chamitoff, who created software focused on spacecraft analysis and maneuver optimization, will operate the space station's robotic arm, and he'll also take part in two spacewalks."
Just goes to show (Score:5, Informative)
Seriously though, this isn't his first time in space. He's an experienced astronaut who was on the International Space Station for half a year and has multiple high level degrees in engineering, astronautics and planetary geology. He's a recipient of the esteemed Silver Snoopy Award and is literally a friggin' Eagle Scout.
Godspeed!
Re:Well ain't that just grand! (Score:4, Informative)
Well, he's done a lot more than just hard-core programming work... this isn't his first time in space: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chamitoff.html [nasa.gov]
Your terrible understanding of grammar revealed (Score:2, Informative)
As noted by a more intelligent responder, and discovered by myself when I re-parsed the original sentence after reading your reply, the line in question was missing a "the" throwing off the whole meaning of the thing. You can talk about apostrophes all you like but people misuse them so often who can you rely on THAT to inform you of meaning over the actual words used in a sentence?
In the end all we have ended up showing here is you lack the ability to analyze a sentence for grammatical errors, and that you are also one of the hated "Apostrophe Nazis" to boot.
Title is incorrect (Score:4, Informative)