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| Ken Stuart | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 02:59 pm
For the last year , a loud hum heard on Signal on the vidio of Space walks. The Audio drowns it out but speech of Astronauts don't come thu very clear. This is not localized as i've talked to others that say the same problem exists with them. Enjoy the vidios very much but very small on screen. Thank you. K. H. Stuart. |
| Dick Hicks | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 03:49 pm
Things have never been better from my perspective. I remember hours and hours of watching the NASA logo to await 10 minutes of soundless video followed by another eternity of background stills. With this recent mission we got live video and sound for a goodly portion of the EVA activities. Yes there still are the communications gaps, although with a 6 satellite TDRSS constellation, I would imagine more coverage. Whenever I long for the olden days, I just wait for the asrtonaut sleep time and I get to watch hours and hours of the Mission Control Center blinking computer screens, and three very large static displays showing apparantly lots of data information with no explanations. Is it any wonder why the belief by the man-in-the-street is "NASA can make space travel boring" |
| spacegrll | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 04:08 pm
Speak for yourself, Dick. Just read the guestbook for this site and see if the "man (or woman!) in the streets really thinks that NASA is making things boring. Perhaps you are just a bit jaded? |
| Dick Hicks | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 06:11 pm
Spacegirl was correct, I am allowing my cynicism and disgust for what could be to color ny views on what is. I will look at tomorrow,s live feed of the Hubble release with a new perspective. I did fail to mention on the previous message that although the bad news is that NASA Select programming ranks up there with the Houston Local weather spot on the weather channel, the good news is that there are no commercials. |
| JRFrysinger | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 07:43 pm
Unfortunately, Dick, not all cable system providers are willing to provide this channel. I've tried for years to get two of them here in Charleston to put it up -- no joy!
Jim |
| Dick Hicks | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 10:56 pm
In Marlyand the sole cable provider in my area provides 125 channels of cable, yet none of them are the NASA Select channel. Every year they drop some channels and add some channels. this has nothing to to with quality of programming and everything to do with financial return on investment. NASA select will never be a commercial success. There is plenty of interest within NASA to keep a Hubble servicing in front of the public but one week every four years does not a series make. If NASA deceided to really get into the PR business, they have a more than enough material to keep a station alive 24x7 but it takes much more than material. It requires programming, voice overs, and intelligent presenters. They have the capability but not the resolve to do this. A better approach to get NASA select into Charleston may be to work with your "Local Area Programming" channel. I know the signal gets to your town, its just a matter of convincing someone that it is in their best interest to pick up the feed. |
| NASAFan | ||||| Friday, March 08, 2002 - 10:57 pm
Perhaps the missing quantity is not resolve, it is resources |
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