As millions of people watched the first astronauts launched into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in a decade, many of those observers may not have realized the Calgary connection to the operation.
CALGARY -- As millions of people watched two American astronauts blast into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade, a Calgary company's work was keeping things going behind the scenes.
"The Kennedy Space Center, the Houston Space Center, jet propulsion laboratories and Hubble Space Telescope control rooms just to name a few," says Matko Papic, Evans Consoles' chief technology officer."In this period, I would say over the past 10 years, there's been a significant technological transformation," he says.
"The new technology is really about embracing more of the digital technology within the control room. Master control rooms typically used to be very analog," Papic says. "When you look at the old movies, they have all the push buttons. That is all now turning digital."
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