re shuttle launch question in article apr head cfa harvard edu jcm head cfa harvard edu jonathan mcdowell writes my understanding is that the expected errors are basically known bugs in the warning system software things are checked that don t have the right values in yet because they aren t set till after launch and suchlike rather than fix the code and possibly introduce new bugs they just tell the crew ok if you see a warning no before liftoff ignore it good grief and i thought the shuttle software was known for being well engineered if this is actually the case every member of the programming team should be taken out and shot given that i ve heard the shuttle software rated as level in maturity i strongly doubt that this is the case nick haines nickh cmu edu
