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Description of Driving Event:

Although the MSFC data bases contain the time histories of most of the pertinent flight dynamic and trajectory variables for each launch, cumulative data for the variables were not available. This made it difficult to quickly determine the actual ranges of flight experience at any given time, as well as, what a reasonable value (within the expected ranges) should be. A computer program which updates the maximum and minimum values at each time point, the flights which produced them, and the means and standard deviations from which the values accumulated from previous flights would be beneficial. The program should include the range of environments, equipment certifications, and flight exposure. The data should be readily available to designers, flight planners, and operational personnel.