NASA Finds Down-to-Earth Savings

The astronauts in-flight manuals became an early example of another crucial system advantage: the power of networking. Prior to the arrival of the electronic publishing print-on-demand system, NASA would produce the in-flight manuals at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on offset printing equipment and then load them on a plane for delivery to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now, we write them in Texas and transmit them electronically for printing on the DocuTech in Florida. About 65 percent of all print work now arrives over the network.