NASA TV Showing a Beautiful Wide Angle Shot of the Earth Now

[Up2Late]

I wish they had a Channel that just showed this.

Any other NASA TV Fans here?

[XNASA]

1. Actually.....

NASA TV was my former employer. Or at least the contractor responsible for NASA-TV originating from Houston was my former employer.

So, not only am I a fan, but I'm also an insider.

[Up2Late]

3. Then maybe you would know

Who's the woman with the beautiful hair working the CAPCOM right now (or at least in the last few hours)?

Where is she from, she has an unusual accent?

[XNASA]

5. Julie Payette

She's French-Canadian.

I once had to do some voice over work with her and was entranced the entire time.

[ScamUSA.Com]

2. NASA TV is the bomb

Actually C-SPAN showed the full footage of the shuttle launch where you see the curve of the Earth as the shuttle gains altitude and sheds its tank... some beautiful views... WOW

[Up2Late]

4. I had to watch the Launch on CSPAN3 because the color...

...(signal?) from NASA TV was screwed up. Except for the extra CSPAN Graphics, it was fine.

[smartvoter]

6. I sometimes put it on to chill out. nt

[RebelOne]

7. NASA used to show shots of the earth from a satellite.

But I have not seen that for a long time.

[XNASA]

9. Those were probably just replays called "Earth Views".

The NASA satellites, called TDRIS satellites are 24,000 miles up. You would actually be able to see the entire earth from that altitude with no problem. To my knowledge, there is no video footage from either TDRIS. But there is tons of stuff from shuttle, and now ISS.

NASA used to run "Earth Views" all the time during non-mission times. You're right about that.

[bigtree]

8. What are they building up there? Another military outpost ?

Lockheed, who runs the space program is just a front for the military space industry. We could get these views from a simple satellite.

We don't need this space station. We could do plenty of exploration of space from unmanned missions. We don't need their ambition to colonize and mine the Moon, or Mars, or Saturn . . . We do need to put an end to the funnel of tax money that flows through the space 'program' into the military industry coffers before we accept any more of these space games.

[XNASA]

10. Really?

:yoiks:

[bigtree]

12. yeah

really.

Boeing, Lockheed form joint venture to build death rockets with our money
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3587291

Another $9 Million Missile Contract for the Death Merchants.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4079615

Lockheed advertises a $76 billion backlog on its investor web page.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1507669

Bush's Military-Industrial Warriors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1499287

[Emperor_Norton_II]

11. Yeah, I hear they're putting guns on ISS as we speak.

Probably preparing for the day when the Galactica arrives with the Cylons hot on her tail. :eyes:

[bigtree]

13. space based platforms

The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) has made significant progress in developing Space-Based chemical Laser (SBL) technologies and in studying the SBLs global defense capability.

In this mission, a constellation of several orbiting laser platforms provides continuous global defense by intercepting threatening missiles in their boost phase, including short range ballistic missiles (SRBMs).
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6975588


ABM Treaty Withdrawal Likely to Boost Space-Based Laser-

The decision by U.S. President George W. Bush to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty spurs research beneficial to orbiting space-based lasers as part of a global missile defense shield
http://www.space.com/news/sbl_011218.html

Crazy for me to imagine that the military defense industry would use the ISS to launch this SBP inituitive. The money's seperate right? The benign space missions can survive without the influx of defense dollars? The missions are seperate? One doesn't corrupt the other?

[Emperor_Norton_II]

17. One small problem

All of that research and money you're ZOMG!ing over hasn't produced a single piece of flight-ready hardware. All SDI 2.0 has produced to date is a bunch of missiles that can barely hit their targets, and only when they've got homing becaons.

...oh, there's another problem: The military doesn't fly on the shuttle no more. Hasn't for 15 years. Any SDI launches will be done by their won rockets from their own launch facility.

And another problem: If you're as gung-ho, America-uber-alles as the Bush administration, why would you put your top-secret space conquest system on a space station that's half-Russian, commanded by Russians 50% of the time and supplied by Russian spacecraft?

I could go on, but I think you get the picture.

[bigtree]

18. We barely blocked funding in Congress over the years

If sucessful it's a threat, if not it's a money hole that is used to support the space industry's most lucrative endeavors which involve our military.

Lockheed, which is the primary contractor:

58% U.S. Department of Defense/Intelligence

22% Civil Government/Homeland Security

Here's an interesting article:

{snips}

U.S. Air Force space planners have long been interested in the role of military personnel in Earth orbit. Getting a real program off the ground, however, has been thwarted in the past - at least in open circles.

An Intergovernmental Agreement on the ISS was first put in place in 1988, resulting in an exchange of letters between participating countries involved in the mega-project. Those letters state that each partner in the project determines what a "peaceful purpose" is for its own element.

"The 1988 U.S. letter clearly states that the United States has the right to use its elements ... for national security purposes, as we define them" said Marcia Smith, a space policy expert at the Congressional Research Service - a research arm of the U.S. Congress.

>>>>MOL’s mission was grand. Military astronauts would carry out reconnaissance using novel cameras and radar gear. Satellites could be inspected, retrieved, even intercepted, if need be. A variety of experiments and hardware were built to explore the usefulness of military command and control operations from Earth orbit. By 1967, the MOL project became the Air Force’s largest space program.
http://www.space.com/news/iss_military_010924-1.html

This is not just some paranoid dream I had. It's being actively resisted.

[QuettaKid]

14. when I win the lottery...

and this is the BIG BIG HUUUUUGE lottery I am going to launch a satellite for exactly this purpose, 24/7 realtime views of earth and there is going to be a room in my house with mammoth plasma screens on all 4 walls showing juts this.....maybe a control so you can zoom in on particularly beautiful cloud/land formations....the lightning storms are the best. I have this on my desktop all the time when the missions are up.

[bigtree]

15. I like this . . .

a satellite.

[Up2Late]

16. I think you've said too much, what ever you do, do NOT answer the Door

in the next 3 hours. The "Black Opps" Troops have been dispatched to your location.

Come on, these Boobs can't even plan 6 Month ahead, the Military Space Program is just a Huge Money Pit, used to steal mega-bucks from the American Tax Payers.

Here's a link to NASA's MODIS Satellite picture Gallery, their is a great (but tragic) picture of the Burning (and clear cutting) of the Amazon Rain Forest from yesterday. It's titled,

Date: 2005/213 - 08/01
14 :15 UTC
Fires and smoke in Brazil

Satellite: Terra
(Most Recent Images: )

[FreedomAngel82]

19. I love it myself

:) My grandmother has a channel that's the NASA channel. :D