AmigaOne X1000: best potential mini-space shuttle controller?

[Tripitaka]

Yeah right lets take a processor thats slower than 4 year old pcs, an operating system with no memory protection, and a worse web browser than I have on my cell phone and use it for mission critical control applications.

You don't need a lot of processing power for a space shuttle, you need to be able to multi task properly and a web browser is pretty irrelevant. An IBM AP101 could do the job, well 5 of them to be safe, gotta have back-ups.

The biggest problem I've had with my personal space shuttle has not been the computer system anyway. It's been trying to find enough space to store the high-altitude zeppelin I launch it from.

Steam-shuttles, the only way to fly.

[Tripitaka]

What do they use for radiation shielding for circuitry? Lead?

But anyways heat may be another concern. In a vacuum there is no air to cool a CPU, and the higher a CPU's clock rate versus a lower clock rate, the more cooling is needed for the higher clock.

Plasticized gold foil is used in radiation shielding, you would be hard pressed to find anything better. As for cooling, electromagnetic radiation will move quite freely through a vacuum (otherwise we would get no heat from the sun).