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Originally Posted by kscherer
Well, also to be fair is the control panel for the SLS/Boeing Orion crew module. In comparison to Crew Dragon, it looks old as hell. You can set the time gap aside and SpaceX is still looking very futuristic in comparison.
And, yeah, Apple is in orbit!  |
Kind of the same scenario, if you take the time scale away in the Boeing case. Aircraft designers are used to building system this way, because plots, who are also astronauts, would be familiar with the layout in most cases. The touch screen system is nice to look at, but could be functionally compromised, and appears to lack redundancy as drewdrops pointed out. I suspect the SpaceX system has ugly backup panels with physical dials and LED lights hidden out of sight of the camera, but we cannot see that so there is no way to know. Lets put it this way, I doubt the iPad strapped in there is the backup.
For all it's future tech, the crew on SpaceX is still using a paper checklist, so 500 B.C.E.