On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand there is a lot of logistics that went into deciding when > the shuttle should land, but would it have been so bad to land > Atlantis during the day when more Americans could have watched it, > either in person or live on TV? I set my alarm and watched it as it > happened, but at 3am PST I was basically watching it half-awake and > out of one bloodshot eye. That said, I watched it live on NASA's free > iPad app, with no commentary by any network blowhard. None of the > networks have science editors anymore, let alone experts on space, so > what would have been the point of hearing any of them speak?
For the record, CBS News still has Bill Harwood, who consults on space news for them (and runs their obsessively-detailed "CBS News Space Place" webpage). He's also a contributor to spaceflightnow.com, where Miles O'Brien landed after getting bounced from CNN. Considering O'Brien was going to become the first journalist to travel to the ISS (NASA and CNN supposedly had come to an agreement just before Columbia was destroyed in 2002), when I wanted commentary on shuttle flights (which wasn't often), that's where I went. -- -- Ben Scripps [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
