I remember the first launch. !! The company I worked for had done a piece of software for the count-down. As you people may remember, 20 minutes prior to launch there was a software glitch (oopss!). somebody had got the + and the - mixed up, so there was somewhere division by "0" which is not good (damn!).
As we all watched the launch, and the count-down got halted, the entire space division was seen to get on the knees, praying the programmer's prayer (Please, let it not be in my sub-routines).
Well, it wasn;t in the software we had developed, but it was a bit too close.
Yes, brings back memories!
Ivan