Quote Originally Posted by brokencrow
And as for legacy systems, is NASA still running 086 chips in the Shuttle?
Where are they getting them now that the supply on eBay dried up a
few years back?
They have a couple factories dedicated to producing shuttle spares pretty much. Its not just the shuttles, but the command centre components too and the simulators.

Space shuttles are a joke. 88,000 moving parts or something like that built by the lowest bidder and now 15 years beyond its life expectency. When the columbia blew up the main companies that built bits basically said "what, it still flies at all?"