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 12:52:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.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: <40101388.42E88ED9@raytheon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 20:52:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.246.166.120 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1074804759 63.246.166.120 (Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:52:39 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:52:39 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4681 Date: 2004-01-22T20:52:39+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 11:16:40 -0700, Jerry Petrey 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. > > Ada was used for the flight software on the Cassini mission (which arrives at > Saturn this year) as well as the > extremely successful NEAR mission (along with Forth) see > http://near.jhuapl.edu/PDF/PS.pdf . > > Jerry > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- Jerry Petrey > -- Senior Principal Systems Engineer - Navigation (GPS/INS), Guidance, & > Control > -- Raytheon Missile Systems - Member Team Ada & Team Forth > -- NOTE: please remove in email address to reply > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your input Jerry. Many of my friends tell me that noone uses Ada anymore and now I can them they are wrong. Those will be some interesting facts to put into my paper. thanks again.