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My Mission Statement
1) Provide a dialog for improvements in Access to Space
2) Provide helpful Mac OSX hints
3) Provide explanation of configuration control
4) Provide HTML generator for source code documentation
5) Provide Java based Go and Connect 4 Games
My goal is to promote a dialog about space policy and review many of the programmatic problems that an agency like NASA faces. NASA is a premier organization that has lost it bearings. At the Johnson Space Center, I was fortunate to be surrounded by people who believe in the destiny of man in space, and applied their skills faithfully to promote that endeavor. But as in all large organizations, the inertia of the organization often limits creative solutions and changes. Shuttle is an awesome vehicle. Every day that I work on the program, I was more amazed at the complexity and ingenuity of the engineering solutions to problems most of us have never thought about. As a Shuttle middle technical manager, I also saw (and participated in) the political wrangling to make improvements in our nations only manned program. Throughout this conversation I will share the dilemmas that management faced and the sometime suboptimal compromises that we all complained about even knowing that an optimal answer did not exist.
I also know that significant improvements can be made in almost ever disciple, especially when applied to a next generation vehicle. NASA is constantly struggling to try both 1) take lessons learned of the pass and also 2) start with a "clean sheet". It is a fallacy to say ONE NASA, such an organization never existed. There have always been competing factions, some promoting what is working now, and others promising leaps into the future. Both group are cynical towards each other! And as always, both make good points as a devil's advocate to the other.
An additional goal is that this web site provides useful information for people that want to upgrade their knowledge and skill in the computing world. After writing thousands of lines of code, managing millions of dollars, and trying to keep my group's computational capabilities up to date, I believe that Mac OSX has provided the foundation for a seamless operation between an unix like development environment and easy to use windows. Most Mac Power Users already know this, but there is much more under the hood then most people know.
Finally, I have a number of pet projects that are under development. Go and Connect 4 are games that I am testing the cross-platform development on OSX.
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Website created and maintained by
John Craft
Last updated: Monday July 16, 2003.
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"Every once in a while I will have a journal entry posted. I want you to tell me how you think I am doing with my writing." - JC
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This site features a new thread of conversation about the space transportation systems of the country. Specifically ideas about the improvements to the shuttle program and possible next generation vehicles are important to share
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