What developers
can learn from
Russian space failures
Andrey Sitnik, Evil Martians
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The company behind PostCSS and Autoprefixer
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Space industry sometimes looks like IT
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Every country makes mistakes
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Story 1
1968
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New Soviet spaceship, Soyuz
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Like
DHTML
jQuery
React
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Soyuz 2 & Soyuz 3 docking test
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Pilots
Soviet Robot (Soyuz 2)
Georgy Beregovoy (Soyuz 3)
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Docking
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Error
ERROR
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Next try
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Error again
ERROR
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Landing without success
Why?
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The spaceship was upside down
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What did they do with him?
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Changed docking instructions
- Dock only on the solar side of the orbit
- Give time for acclimatization
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Lesson 1
There is no such thing as stupid users.
There is only bad UI.
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Story 2
1969
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Start in Soyuz 4, land in Soyuz 5
Boris Volynov
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Boris Volynov should land alone
Boris Volynov
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Soyuz spaceship
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Separation before landing
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Soyuz 5 separation
Thermal shield
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Hatch was in the front during re-entry
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What will you do?
Blame USSR
Blame engineers
Pray to God
He recorded every detail of separation
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Luckily, second connection was melted
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He landed successfully
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Lesson 2
Always report about issues.
Even if it was a documentation issue.
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Story 3
1997
Mir space station
Mir was the first modular space station
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Every module is an independent spaceship
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Like multicellular organism
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Modules and ships dock automatically
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Mir crew
Vasili Tsibliyev
Aleksandr Lazutkin
Michael Foale
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Automatic docking system was made in Ukraine
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Remote control to replace Ukranian system
Commands
Video
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The result
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The result
Decompression
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Not the best day
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Module was decompressed until Mir deorbit
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Lesson 3
Let the Robots do the work.
Robots must suffer.
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