Matt:Okay,all systems go!
Mission Control:Roger that Matthew.
T-Minus-3 minutes.
T-Minus-2 minutes.
T-Minus-1 minute.
Jack:Alright we are turning on autopilot.
Matt:Okay,we've got all engines armed.
T-Minus-10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,LIFTOFF!!!
Dan:All engines are firing.We're all go up here.
Mission Control:Alright,the SLS's systems are going good.
Matt:Roger.
Owen:This is insane!
Matt:Yeah.
Dan:Finally we are...

Last summer and fall, I worked at the Sacramento International Airport for four months as a baggage handler/ ramp worker. This short blog will lay out certain ground rules and expectations for my later posts.

For the sake of security, ALL security sensitive information will be excluded. I will not detail what these things are, obviously.

Details of handling aircraft, hand signals, funny stories, and a typical day on the ramp WILL be included, with sensitive information...

XR-2 Test#2



Last year (2015) HASSESA was contracted by SpaceX and Altea to test out the XR-2's capabilities. The XR-2 was designed to get us to Mars by the year 2025 if not earlier. In one of the President Elect's speeches back in 2014; Allen Delacroix promised to venture farther in space making Venus and Mars our targets.

On December 20th, 2015, a HASSESA crew took the XR-2 "Raven" on her first test flight. The flight landed on the...

Someone asked in the last post about the tutorials I used. It was a combination of a few - I started with this one:

http://www.directxtutorial.com/LessonList.aspx?listid=9

It's good at explaining and it's good for me because I usually learn better when I have some full code to look at to summarise the point, and which builds up in complexity in each tutorial, but that site has been slammed for not error checking. If you use that site alone you'll eventually run into...

So let's add a virtual cockpit.

Virtual cockpits can dramatically increase the immersion factor of a simulation and a custom cockpit and/or 2d panel is an absolute ust for any vessel that with advanced subsystem modeling. The historical LM had over 160 switches and displays spread across 14 panels and we've only got so many keyboard commands to work with.

PART 12: Adding a virtual cockpit.

First thing first, we need to declare a mesh for our VC....