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Another Interesting NASA Event You Can't Listen To

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 29, 2015
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Another Interesting NASA Event You Can't Listen To

Keith’s note: NASA JPL PAO issued this media advisory yesterday giving 4 days advanced notice of a media event covering NASA missions to Europa, Ceres, Pluto, and Saturn. But if you want to know what NASA is saying about these missions you have to physically be there. No NASA TV, no NASA news audio, no dial-in – nothing. So if you can’t afford to buy plane tickets at the last minute, your media outlet is out of luck. So are your classrooms. In other words this is a southern California-only update. I asked JPL PAO about this. Their response: “The event is for media who can attend at JPL in person.” Oddly, JPL is the first to brag about how they can communicate with – and even reprogram spacecraft millions – billions – of miles away. But a simple audio or video recording …

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11 responses to “Another Interesting NASA Event You Can't Listen To”

  1. Darren E says:
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    Keith why don’t you volunteer to make the recording for them? Then we can all view it later!

    • kcowing says:
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      Because I am in Virginia and have no way to hear or record anything unless I spend a lot of money on a plane ticket to go there and record it. Or … NASA could push a button and stream it to millions of taxpayers for free.

      • Darren E says:
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        Sounds like they need help in doing that…maybe someone who lives near JPL can suggest that to them 🙂

  2. Saturn1300 says:
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    Went to a FISO teleconference that was listed. Access denied. Can download mp3 and materials separate later. I like the ones NASA PAO does , news audio, where I can hear and see the material live. FISO does have a lot of good stuff though. Short Mars missions. Use Venus for slingshot back. Use a SLS tank like Sky Lab, for a habitat for a Mars Mission
    . While construction crews work on the Atlas 5 launch pad, Boeing expects the first CST-100 capsule components to arrive at the spacecraft’s manufacturing facility at Kennedy Space Center in February, Elbon said.

    The components will be integrated into the CST-100’s structural test article, a ground version of the capsule designed for testing.

    “We build that up and we load it to make sure that the design matches the load paths,” Elbon said. “This fall, the pieces that will make up the qualification test vehicle, which then gets refurbished to become the crew flight test vehicle, will be arriving.” Some news via copy & paste. Slip, slip.

    • kcowing says:
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      FISO is a pet project of NASA civil servant Harley Thronson who plays favorites with which taxpayers he allows to participate and which ones he does not.

      • objose says:
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        Keith, of all your recent pithy comments, this is my favorite: “Oddly, JPL is the first to brag about how they can communicate with – and even reprogram spacecraft millions – billions – of miles away.”

        • kcowing says:
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          There are some stunningly skilled people at JPL. Alas, none of them work at PAO.

          • Michael Spencer says:
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            I’ve been to several JPL open-houses (remember those?) Flew out from Florida just for one of them and it was worth every penny just to talk to some of those guys- just to breathe the same air.
            What Keith says is just the tip of the iceberg. Those guys are whip smart, they are motivated, and they love to talk about their shit.

            Leadership, not so much.

            (It’s part of my stupid bucket list item to visit and then get a photo of me in front of every NASA center. How pathetic is that! 🙂

  3. Wendy Yang says:
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    Time to get out the mass instantaneous transportation system…

  4. planetfan says:
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    Keith, lucky you could have applied to attend the complementary event at Goddard. http://www.nasa.gov/state-o

    • kcowing says:
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      You miss the point. This is not about whether I want to attend a NASA social event or not. Rather, it is about whether the rest of America gets a chance to hear what is being said at JPL. Also, FWIW, I do not attend NASA social media events because I have already seen much of this stuff before over the years and would be taking up one of a limited number of places that someone new could otherwise take.