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- From: roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: NASA Select
- Message-ID: <9207301722.AA12925@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:22:14 GMT
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- Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
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- I tried to record the replay of the TOPEX press conference on NASA Select
- at 1:00 AM EDT. The pictures and graphics were certainly very impressive.
- Unfortunately, there was no sound. :-) Apparently the NASA Select people
- were aware of the problem, because the replay was abruptly cut off after
- about 25 minutes. (My guess is that it was accidentally *recorded* with
- no sound.)
-
- That made me wonder - is there a "NASA Select operations" phone number that
- a viewer could use to reach operations and tell them "there's no sound"
- or "you're playing the tape backwards"? Occasionally I'm up late enough that
- such a number would be useful, and assuming replays are from NASA Headquarters,
- it wouldn't cost me much to give them a call (definitely worthwhile for an
- important press conference).
-
- NASA Select's been having some really interesting material lately, including
- the Geotail launch, video of the "Rocky IV" rover (including some shots
- of the stereo display screen), and many press conferences, plus the usual
- historical material, "Launchbox" for kids, JPL computer animation movies,
- and so on. According to Peter Yee's posts of NASA Daily News, the noon
- broadcast of the NASA Today show is live - I hadn't realized that. There
- seems to be an increasing trend toward replaying the press conferences in each
- of the four-hour time slots, which is very useful to me. Is it true that there
- are plans to cover the launch of an Ariane with a US-related payload?
-
- In a recent press conference that I saw replayed on NASA Select, Administrator
- Goldin was asked about cooperation between the US and Russian space programs.
- Among the items I had heard elsewhere, he mentioned the plan to dock a Shuttle
- to Mir, in order to use the living space and life support of Mir, along with
- the scientific resources of the Shuttle. The thing that surprised me was the
- planned duration of the rendezvous - I *think* he said four months!
-
- Heard this morning on network news - Congress decided to continue funding for
- SSF, but at half a billion dollars less than the Administration had requested.
-
- John Roberts
- roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov
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