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You dug up a great talk, but I could not find the PDF. There's no link, and the expected file FSW10_Cichy.pdf is not present with all the other PDFs in the download directory.

The author, Ben Cichy, was the guy in Flight Control during the landing last night, sitting behind the position marked "Flight Software". So he's definitely a good source for the background ;-)

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I don't know if there is a PDF. The media player is interesting, though, in that it's actually just some javascript that loads a sequence of stills at the appropriate time, and if you look at the source, you can write, say, a python script to download all the images, which I did. When I get home, I'll see if I can find it.

OK, here's the script I had hacked together. It (or some previous version), successfully downloaded all of the images, and a timings.txt. It was then supposed to create a movie file of each slide of the appropriate length, concatenate them all, and add the audio. But my VM kept crashing, and then I never had time to get back to it. Plus, the movie file ended up being very large. But if you have python 2.7.2+, you can run it and grab the images.

https://github.com/nsp/gazpacho

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