Quote Originally Posted by stevew View Post
About a year or so ago I got to go into NASA in Houston. A friend of mine has access to just about everything there and helps train just about everybody it seems. We would walk into a room and everyone knew who he was. Impressive. Got to go into the room where they were making actual suits and such. Put on one of the example helmets and gloves. Got to walk into and around the submerged training area for the astronu... and go into the control command room, just missed a call from Trump they said. Got to get into all the stuff on the floor like shuttle and such. You could see other visitors about 40ft up on a second floor looking down at us from behind glass walls. It was all pretty interesting. At that time they said they were still using 386 CPUs because it takes so long and so much money to certify everything about a CPU and board. That shocked me. I think I heard him say they did finally upgrade.
Nice! I would love to get a tour like that!

A former co-worker of mine worked for NASA, specifically do some things for the ISS. She had some really cool stories.