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I opened this up this morning to show my daughter at breakfast, thinking, hey, getting kids interested in this stuff is good. Dead silence. Nothing. Not a word

by natch 12y ago

I opened this up this morning to show my daughter at breakfast, thinking, hey, getting kids interested in this stuff is good. Dead silence. Nothing. Not a word of commentary. To a kid, that conveys boring. I could hear some white noise and after a while some faint public address system speech way off in the background. So disappointing. NASA, do you still have an educational component to your mission? It would be really great if these big launches were explained a bit on the live video feed. If there's nothing going on to explain, there should be a ton of material waiting from NASA history to fill the air time.

tempestn 12y ago
At least in the hours up to the launch, it was actually really good. There was a ton of content describing the intended launch, its goals, requirements, planning that went into it, etc. There was also a segment with Elmo (from Sesame Street) talking with an astronaut and an engineer (iirc) that I saw, and apparently another similar special "guest". They probably just didn't have as much planned for the period after the launch was aborted.