This was a nice production. However, as a former staff member of the NASA Armstrong Television production team, I was shocked that you did not mosey down the flightline at Edwards. The Armstrong and before Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards was the operational home of the Space Shuttle program in California! I know, I had the privilege of being a NASA camera operator on Shuttle landings and NASA flight research throughout the 1990s. Vital research with the X-15 and Lifting Bodies at Armstrong paved the way for Shuttle development. You did not even show the mate/demate device that put the Shuttle on top of the 747 for flight back to Florida. The Air Force side was of course a vital partner with the Shuttle program. I am just dumbfounded though that you ignored NASA Armstrong in this production.
The Program was amazing for the time, the faults were not technical but purely human. Ignoring errors, rushing things, over engineering and over confidence. Machines do what we tell them to do, they are never to take the blame. NASA needed the slap to the face to wake up about what they were doing. A new age starts, NASA understood they cannot do it alone anymore. A new era begins! Loved the video, btw! I can always learn something new and today I did, thank you PBS dudes and dudettes!
Yes, but NASA never really did it alone. As this production shows, aerospace companies built the Shuttle and the Apollo spacecraft, not NASA itself. The difference now is that government does not oversee everything that goes into space.
16:56 Definitely not a DEI tickbox hire . And wow she actually flew the mission that dropped a capsule out the back of a C17 - really pushing the envelope there.
I really like this show but it took too long between episodes that I lost interest and thought it was cancelled. Glad to see it wasn’t and there is a new season.
This was a nice production. However, as a former staff member of the NASA Armstrong Television production team, I was shocked that you did not mosey down the flightline at Edwards. The Armstrong and before Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards was the operational home of the Space Shuttle program in California! I know, I had the privilege of being a NASA camera operator on Shuttle landings and NASA flight research throughout the 1990s. Vital research with the X-15 and Lifting Bodies at Armstrong paved the way for Shuttle development. You did not even show the mate/demate device that put the Shuttle on top of the 747 for flight back to Florida. The Air Force side was of course a vital partner with the Shuttle program. I am just dumbfounded though that you ignored NASA Armstrong in this production.
Such a cool episode! Loved it!
Yay! It’s back 🫶🏽
Excellent episode. Thank you!
Awesome seeing ya representing Maryanne!
The Program was amazing for the time, the faults were not technical but purely human. Ignoring errors, rushing things, over engineering and over confidence. Machines do what we tell them to do, they are never to take the blame. NASA needed the slap to the face to wake up about what they were doing. A new age starts, NASA understood they cannot do it alone anymore. A new era begins!
Loved the video, btw! I can always learn something new and today I did, thank you PBS dudes and dudettes!
Yes, but NASA never really did it alone. As this production shows, aerospace companies built the Shuttle and the Apollo spacecraft, not NASA itself. The difference now is that government does not oversee everything that goes into space.
15:54 the Enterprise only made 5 free flights during the approach and landing tests.
the payload doors were made here in Tulsa.
Outstanding presentation.😊
Hope it all doesn't burn up. With the current fires in LA currently
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Sounds like Michael Moore voice
16:56 Definitely not a DEI tickbox hire . And wow she actually flew the mission that dropped a capsule out the back of a C17 - really pushing the envelope there.
Hollywood is indeed the most important resting place for such an expensive prop 😉 (17k mph my arse!)
I really like this show but it took too long between episodes that I lost interest and thought it was cancelled. Glad to see it wasn’t and there is a new season.
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LA sucks.
It does for the most part, but there are some nice parts of Louisiana.