From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3b4c15e38968a00a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-22 04:41:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a9a86997!not-for-mail From: "Bill Ward" Organization: realitycoder Subject: Re: Any ADA NASA Developer's out there? User-Agent: Pan/0.13.3 (That cat's something I can't explain) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:41:49 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.246.166.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1074775309 63.246.166.120 (Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:41:49 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 04:41:49 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4632 Date: 2004-01-22T12:41:49+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:35:57 -0600, Mark H Johnson wrote: > Bill Ward wrote: > >> I am doing a paper for school on career interests. One career interest I >> have is to develop software for NASA. I was wondering if there are any >> ADA developers at NASA that watch this thread. I would very much like to >> speak with you if so. > NASA (as a civil servant) or a contractor delivering products to NASA? > > I am certainly in the latter category and would not mind talking to a > student about the kinds of software we develop, how we do it, etc. > --Mark Johnson Either or :) I Did a little reaserch on the subject namely the NASA Document "Recommended Approach to Software Development, Revision 3" SEL-81-305. Apparently there is a ton of documentation and a solid system of checks and balances. One big question I have is if ADA is still used or even used at all for current NASA projects. I heard that the Spirit Rover used JAVA.