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Computer, Onboard, GRID Compass II, Shuttle
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Computer, Onboard, GRID Compass II, Shuttle
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Computer, Onboard, GRID Compass II, Shuttle
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Computer, Onboard, GRID Compass II, Shuttle
Display Status:
This object is on display in the Moving Beyond Earth exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.
Collection Item Summary:
Early Shuttle missions carried a laptop computer made by Grid Systems, Inc. The Grid was chosen because of its rugged metal case and its use of a solid state memory instead of a rotating disk. Software developed for the Grid included a graphic that displayed the Orbiter's position in space at any given time, relative to the Earth and to the line of daylight/darkness.
This is an unflown model identical to those flown on early Shuttle missions.
