... This oral history with Jack Funk is being conducted for the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project in Houston, Texas. ... But we have to put them in order, and they don?t always select what we say is the best one, either one. ... So I sat down and I said, ?I?m going to run all the inputs here one at a time, putting them in one at a time, until I find the minimum number of inputs that makes a program run,? because if you can?t run it, you can?t debug it. ... Funk: Yes. ... Funk: The Skylab Program...

... Hazy skies usually mean steady skies, and steady air is just what the doctor ordered for observing planets and double stars. Mars is well past opposition and becoming less an item of interest as it shrinks in size, but Jupiter and Saturn are well placed in the early morning August sky. ... Their magnitudes are 4.2 and 6.0. ... It has an easily observed 10.6 magnitude central star. ... Cygnus is also host to a lot of small open star clusters that stand up to inspection under hazy skies. ...