Correction

Dec. 1, 2010

An entry in Monday’s column on the Launch Control Center NetLink system misspelled the name of its creator: Douglas Angell, a technical engineer with the 526th ICBM Systems Group at Minot AFB, N.D. We’ve corrected the original entry and apologize to Mr. Angell for the error.

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