ElI5 Why was the shuttle’s insturmentation (layout, technology, etc) so similar to that of your everyday A340 even when the two are vastly different?
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They were both planes, in the broadest sense. There’s a certain set of information that’s relevant to flying any plane, so if the information is the same it makes sense to choose a UI layout that’s known to pilots (many astronauts start out as jet pilots) already.
And there’s also a limited amount of layouts for “we have to fit a hell of a lot of flip switches onto a panel”.
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