Comment by dayjah

This appears to be a brilliant case of reliability engineering. I'm always super impressed with these sorts of tales; given how NASAs budget always seems to be concern seeing them deliver solutions which have just enough wiggle room in them to deliver the intended results without going too far into gold plating their solutions really leaves the software infrastructure engineer in me in awe. Even more so when you consider the time spans involved in this; I personally believe we've a ton to learn in the software space from practices like this.