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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. In each case, electronic fabrics sensitive to vibrations and charge could serve as a foundational technology. Already, engineered fabrics serve crucial functions here on Earth.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Mr. Smith, who was in charge of the computer’s entire digital hardware design, and Mr. Herzfeld became close friends and often collaborated. Placing an Early Bet on the 68000 Chip The 68000 , with a 16-bit data bus and 32-bit internal registers and a 7.83-megahertz No programmer would be needed for translation.

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