rjnoe@ihuxx.UUCP (Roger Noe) (11/28/83)
I saw CBS' coverage of the shuttle launch this morning. Kathryn Sullivan kept Morton Dean in line. They interrupted rather late, at about T-5 minutes or less (i.e. 1055 EST). For once a network anchor did not make a complete fool of himself. I would've liked to hear and see more of launch control operations, naturally, but this was some of the better coverage I've seen a network have of any shuttle launch after the first two. The roll seemed quite fast, I think perhaps they got their roll program finished in the same time as other flights, even though it was farther. I've forgotten, which way does 39-A face? I've got it on a map from my last visit, but I don't know where I put it. Oh, they had some pretty good aerial views of the launch as well. SRB sep was fairly clear, considering the weather. What a nominal launch! Pravda today announced Soviet intentions to construct a permanently manned orbiting space station. No timetable was given for this. -- Roger Noe ...ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe
smb@ulysses.UUCP (11/29/83)
The Soviets have also announced a plan to orbit giant mirrors to illuminate their northern cities during the Arctic winter (source: NBC News).
dya@unc-c.UUCP (11/29/83)
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The only decent coverage of an American space mission was that given by
Home Box Office, for STS-1 { This was before they went 24 hours per day.}
Their coverage of the launch and reentry was simply the pool feeds that
the networks use, I guess, with the COMPLETE audio communications portion.
Our local cable company decided to do routine maintainence about 7 seconds
before landing !!!! { Fortunately, we had a semi-working earth station. }
Why, why, WHY can't some do-gooder channel like C-SPAN; or at least
someone with idle transponder time, do this ? I'd like to see all the
uninterrupted video and hear all the audio transmissions without some stupid
announcer cutting off the good parts. What a way to build American interest
in the space programme !
--David { decvax!duke!mcnc!unc-c!dya }wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (11/29/83)
> The Soviets have also announced a plan to orbit giant mirrors to illuminate > their northern cities during the Arctic winter (source: NBC News). I hate to think what this will do to optical astronomy. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,kpno,princeton}!astrovax!wls