Was watching the Falcon 9 launch today, and was incensed when the engines started and the count went to 00. GD Discovery starts playing this ridiculous theme music while the vehicle climbs toward space. WTF?? Like launches prior, we want to hear the sounds, including the roar of the engines and communications. Not have it all drowned-out by some cheesy Casio keyboard-demo music. Other than stupid prerecorded Katie Perry comments during the lead up coverage and that classless segment about the Challenger explosion, it wasn't all bad. But then when they ran that awful music at the launch? Thought my head was going to explode.
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Discovery's Falcon 9 Launch Coverage
- Thread starter Kelly A
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Yeah, that was fairly awful, I have to agree.
Fascinating to see the mission control crew at SapceX on laptops and on what looks like fold up tables. It seemed very casual, though I am sure they are all dead serious. And of course everyone in masks. When I was a kid mission control sure looked different!
Fascinating to see the mission control crew at SapceX on laptops and on what looks like fold up tables. It seemed very casual, though I am sure they are all dead serious. And of course everyone in masks. When I was a kid mission control sure looked different!
And I'll be that each of those laptops is vastly more powerful than the whole computer system used in the 1969 moon launch. And they are likely interchangeable at an instant's notices, with a highly redundant system backing them up.
I noticed how much simpler the gear in the actual spacecraft was. And the Musk touch with the designer astronaut uniforms.
All we needed was Sinatra crooning "Come Fly with Me" in the background...
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I have to say I have not been as moved emotionally by a space flight since the moon landing and, in the opposite way, the 1986 Challenger disaster.
Why not just watch it on youtube or cbs like most everyone else if you didn’t like discoveries coverage of it.
I saw the launch on The Weather Channel, it was great to see some Astronauts from our country head to space in the rocket with no issues. I wish them luck in space at the International Space Station once they get there and be there for a while too.
I'll answer for Kelly
One does not expect any channel doing a live news report to dramatize the event with SFX.
It's not professional, it is bush league, it is stupid, it is just wrong.
The first minutes after a lift-off are very critical. Until the two stages detach and the capsule is preparing to establish its orbit, many things can go wrong. We all remember the events of 1986 and understand that. And for those and many other reasons, we don't add sound effects and music to the moment of the launch.
I'm not sure if it was just tacky, or a total lack of respect. Maybe both.
Now, I yield to Kelly!
I'll answer for Kelly
One does not expect any channel doing a live news report to dramatize the event with SFX.
It's not professional, it is bush league, it is stupid, it is just wrong.
The first minutes after a lift-off are very critical. Until the two stages detach and the capsule is preparing to establish its orbit, many things can go wrong. We all remember the events of 1986 and understand that. And for those and many other reasons, we don't add sound effects and music to the moment of the launch.
I'm not sure if it was just tacky, or a total lack of respect. Maybe both.
Typical John Malone/Liberty Media approach to documentary/nature/science programming: Dumb it down and dress it up with music and SFX. Not surprised at all that Discovery would do that to a live news event, especially one that involves (yuck) science.
Somewhere I found out ABC was doing the launch and I recorded and watched later. Nicely done. There was some annoying Top 40 music at the beginning but we were allowed to hear most of what was going on. Sometimes commentary from the anchors and those they were interviewing drowned it out, but most of it was good.
ABC had two former astronauts, both female for some reason, being interviewed.
ABC had two former astronauts, both female for some reason, being interviewed.
I always get uneasy when I hear the words "throttle up".
I was thinking it seemed like a typical Elon Musk approach. I was watching on Discovery yesterday and thought it was weird that they had music, but I figured it was inserted by SpaceX as part of their pool feed.
I'll answer for Kelly
One does not expect any channel doing a live news report to dramatize the event with SFX.
It's not professional, it is bush league, it is stupid, it is just wrong.
The first minutes after a lift-off are very critical. Until the two stages detach and the capsule is preparing to establish its orbit, many things can go wrong. We all remember the events of 1986 and understand that. And for those and many other reasons, we don't add sound effects and music to the moment of the launch.
I'm not sure if it was just tacky, or a total lack of respect. Maybe both.
Now, I yield to Kelly!
What David said pretty well summed it up. That, and the stream from NASA TV was running about 38 seconds behind. Internet latency. During a launch, a lot can happen in 38 seconds.
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