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Posted by snidely on September 19, 2006, 5:00 pm
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Keith Soltys wrote:
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> >And while we're about it, how about a 24/7 streaming webcam from the ISS
> >looking down on the earth? That would be cool.
> Very cool and they should have done it years ago. Bandwidth's can't be that
> expensive.
NASA TV between flights shows lots of this sort of video, from the
payload bay cams. How often do you watch that?
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> I always thought they missed a chance with Walter Cronkite. I'd have loved to
> have seen him do a newscast from space, with all of the imagery being the
> earth below. Might have changed some people's persepectives on things.
I seem to recall (ISTR) that a reporter in space was in the plans for
after Teacher In Space, only to be removed from consideration when
Challenger came apart.
/dps
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> And it would have far more impact on more people than any number of obscure
> microgravity experiments. I'd have it as my permanent screensaver:)