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And what happens during launch when — I assume — everything starts vibrating wildly? They better be enormous virtual buttons.


Actually I remember reading an article mentioning that they use vibration data from accelerometters to slightly shift content on thescreen, thus preventing the screen from appearing blurry to the crew during the launch. Pretty clever. :)

But indeed, the launch is automated and for any the few important manual thing (basically just manual launch abort trigger) they have separate physical controls.


They stare at them while waiting for the automatic launch sequence that has been in use by rockets since the early space race.




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