[RadioAstronomer]

Wait till you see how much paperwork is required for a manned system.

I still have:

the 14 volume set (NSTS 07700) with appendix 1-10;

The ICD 2-19001 (Shuttle Orbiter Cargo Standard Interfaces);

Flight Data File System Data Book;

Payload Support Capabilities Description, JSC, POCC, Remote POCC;

just to name a few sitting in book cases here in my office.

(I prob have close to 100 docs here)

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Oh, yeah... Manned systems = nightmare. NASA is driving the good people out.

[MikeD]

My boss tells me horror stories of trying to get a laptop and a telescope to fly on the shuttle. They flew twice, but not before going through mountains of paperwork, and discovering the hard way that the shuttles are not built the same. Mounting holes present in one shuttle are not present in another, things like that. One of our engineers joked about getting out the power drill and "fixing" the problem...

[anymouse]

I prob have close to 100 docs here

That's all? Slacker. :)

I've had to review that (space shuttle P/L integration docs) plus 15 years of different incarnations of space station various levels documents and the Russian Mir, Soyuz, etc., and various DoD and commercial program over my career in and out of NASA.