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How to discover volcanoes on Io before anyone else and other interesting stories from James Miller
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Interview Timeline
James Miller has decades of experience working on spacecraft navigation. He has also worked extensively in programming computer systems to conduct navigation operations. We spoke about his experiences with the Mariner, Viking, and NEAR missions for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This is part 2 of a two part interview.
0:25 – Jim talks about a shutter problem with Mariner 6.
5:03 – Jim talks about his section manager on the mission and getting fired and rehired.
13:27 – Jim talks about Viking issues.
20:53 – Jim talks about Dennis Tito, Lou Kingsland, and backhanded compliments.
24:17 – Jim talks about Jupiter mission Galileo.
28:12 – Jim relates an interesting story on the discovery of volcanoes on Io.
33:51 – Jim talks about navigating missions out of the solar system.
38:46 – Jim talks about the new book he’s writing on general relativity and software.
43:57 – Jim talks about Harry Lass.
Links of interest
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319789156
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Guests: James Miller
Host: Cris Alvarez
Tags: space history, space technology, unmanned space missions, audio interviews, NASA history, podcast, coding and computing, general science,
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