re: #181 sizzzzlerz

In the engineering trade, there are a couple phrases that address out-of-date technology and its care and feeding. The first is “technical debt” which is applied as your design ages, growing increasingly further behind modern tech. The second phrase addresses having to support this aging, far out-of-date tech. This practice is referred to as “being chained to a corpse”.

In NASA’s world, not only do both apply to their spacecraft, they revel in the successful practice of overcoming them.

well for them, it is hard to swap out parts…