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it for two years i think for this mission what was the training involved. the training focuses in those two years really on what they have to do for the mission so we re teaching them about the spacecraft functioning about the repair jobs that they have to do the maintenance job it s a giant machine it needs oil laying it. shining on on the edges there s a lot of work involved that has to be done by the to keep it going and then of course there s a lot of work going into preparation for the soyuz flight being able to fly and potentially pilot vehicle is a task that takes nine months out of these two years already and then we have the science bitch where we teach them how to be the experimenter that does what the scientists on the ground want them to do because ultimately the experiments for scientists on earth. stay with us if you would mind we re going to have
80s, the general image of the computer was always this giant machine with little things all over it. the mindset was the computer as the brain. and it was a threatening concept. the 1980s is a period of time when the big, impersonal, giant machine that lives in a huge, air-conditioned room someplace suddenly becomes something that sits on your desk. something is happening out there, something that s expanding your world. small computers are happening. as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our daily lives, into our factories, into our hospitals, into our businesses, then it s going to be a new world out there. computer stores have become the neighborhood soda shops of the binary generation. the disciples, young and old, of smart machines. companies that were starting to build personal computers, companies like atari, tandy, commodore, apple began to see them as a home market.