Aspects of the Gemini real-time operating system

Three generations of programming systems have provided realtime ground support for manned spaceflight programs. The first of these was the Mercury system, which became operational in 1960.
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The third and current system supports the Apollo program. The subject of this paper is the second in the series, the Gemini system, developed for NASA at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston, Texas.