Talking Space

This issue of COTS Journal has a section devoted to space-qualified electronics where we highlight some key rad-tolerant products and get some insights from our friends at Aitech on what “space-qualified” really means. I’ve always been fascinated by space travel both real and fictional. As a kid in the 70s I was very much a pre-Internet child. But my best friend knew an address at NASA’s public relations department you could write to and request a stack of photos of spaceflight images for free-an exciting day at the mailbox for me when they arrived.