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The Remote Agent Experiment: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away
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Ron Garret tells the story of the Remote Agent Experiment on NASA's Deep Space 1, where autonomous software controlled a spacecraft in 1999. He describes debugging Lisp code remotely from millions of miles away.
Cited in Lisp and safety-critical software threads as the definitive firsthand account of the DS1 remote REPL debugging episode.
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