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An inspiring (in many ways) @listen2spacepod show
80: Places where people can have adventures with Br. Consolmagno — https://www.listentospacepod.com/episodes/2017/1/15/80-places-where-people-can-have-adventures-with-...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: 'a bit of "scruff''
From Eros to Gaia
Cosmic Search Vol. 1, No. 1 - Little Green Men, White Dwarfs or Pulsars? http://www.bigear.org/vol1no1/burnell.htm

"One day Kosmala, a programmer, went to the MIT library and looked up a series of star coordinates to align the inertial platform, which he then embedded into the code. That star catalog survived into the final version and became the basis for the astronauts' navigation to the moon." page 147 Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight - David A. Mindell - Google Books

https://books.google.com/books?id=gXYItzQARVoC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=%22one+day+Kosmala%...