mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (09/01/88)
[] The guys at JSC Public Affairs felt that it was unncessary to broadcast the sim on NASA select. It was called a "monkey wrench" simulation, since the guys in the back room were to throw every conceivable malfunction at the crew and see it they could fix it. This included the left engine going out during launch, a TDRSS deployment failure requiring an emergency EVA to correct, along with a bunch of other goodies. What I am wondering is if it might have been broadcast locally in the Houston area on cable, and if so, is there anyone on The Net, who might have been able to videotape it? I always wanted to see one of these guys and would love to be able to get a tape of it. Next time I'll call up JSC and complain!! Yeah, that's the ticket. .. (a friend of mine slept through an early morning satellite deployment once, called them up and had it replayed just for him). P.S. Actually, a couple of small pieces were broadcast, the launch and a news conferences yesterday. The launch video was some previous Discovery mission, and was about 7 seconds behind the real sim. So the PAO was just announcing liftoff, and the engines hadn't even ignited. -- *** mike (starship janitor) smithwick *** "You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Mom". [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]