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through a series of simulations (SIMs) of the actual mission. These SIMs were designed by the Gateway to provide practice and experience for the SMOCs before the actual mission. The first part of the actual mission provided the best practice––in most cases, the SMOCs revised their operation scenario and target selections considerably during the time the shuttle was docked with Mir and KidSat was not in operation.

Table 1: SMOC Computer Minimum Configuration

Macintosh: performa 500 or 600 PowerPC series
• 8MB RAM
• 500MB hard disk
• Mac OS Systems 7.1 or higher
• Ethernet port (included with CPU)
• 14-inch high-resolution color monitor with 256 colors
• Sound (included with CPU)
• CD-ROM (highly desirable)

PC: 486 processor (or faster using Microsoft Windows
• 8 MB RAM
• 500MB hard disk
• Microsoft Widows 3.1 or higher
• Ethernet port
• 14-inch SVGA color monitor with 256 colors
• Sound card
• CD-ROM (highly desirable)

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Figure 25: The Mission Operations SMOC home page, generated by undergraduate students. 

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