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NASA TV Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

Works for me. The YT embed points at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

⬐ Phreaker00

NASA needs to get taught on how to do live streams in 2022. For such a long-awaited presentation from one of the biggest space agencies in the world the quality of the live stream is terrible. Low video quality (720p highest), constant lag, microphone issues (wrong microphone open leading to NASA-ASMR) and failing connections to external locations.

I wish they put more effort into this. It deserves it!

⬐ DisjointedHunt

Honestly, I’m happy and disappointed at the same time.

NASA has lost the plot with space exploration. They haven’t moved manufacturing efficiency or payload mass by any meaningful margin in decades.

We could have had 10 or more JWSTs up there by now for the cost of the overruns and total cost of salaries and overhead.

I’d like them to be a lot more introspective than they are at present. Like, “Yeah, these images are cool, but we could have done a much better job if we had better project management to stick to a budget”

⬐ Pr0ject217

Any chance anyone knows where to find the playlist of songs used in the video?

Update: Sent NASA an email. I'll post here if I get a response. ^_^

⬐ Pr0ject217

Update: Sent NASA an email. I'll post here if I get a response. ^_^

⬐ bearjaws

I am super excited to see these images, but... damn NASA needs to spend a final $30,000 on video production, why is this guy walking around with a non-gimbal camera wobbling like its a Americas Funniest Home Videos.

All remote video feeds didn't have audio... theres been many echos... camera switches are abrupt ...

⬐ jordanpg

This hour-long rollout is just terrible.

They are effectively just needlessly interfering with the day of several million people at work.

⬐ crhulls

I wonder what the views will be for this historic event vs say an NBA basketball game or a generic reality tv show?

⬐ jordanpg

I wonder what fraction of viewers are muted.

⬐ bearjaws

Excited to see the results, but this video production is ROUGH.

This presentation is a disaster... The cameraman isn't even using a gimbal so it wobbles like a 90s AFV video. They haven't been able to make any of the offsite video work. You can hear the production staff debugging in the background lol...

At 24 minutes in they finally got an offsite video working, but they couldn't cut out the transition music while the presenters were talking...

Their stream is hitching every 3-4 seconds...

Looks like a high school project compared to a SpaceX presentation. (not a Elon fan, just 'marketing' science is important to me, we need people excited)

⬐ piker

Honestly and with all due respect they could just release the images, etc. with some text with a video explainer to follow. The hype machine is broken and taking away from the actual awesomeness of the project.

Also on NASA TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

⬐ qwertox

Which has a smaller delay than ESA's stream (~31 seconds).

There's also Arianespace's stream which is 6 seconds more current than Nasa's stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J70xqApTUow

⬐ perihelions

Twitch seems to be even more current than Arianespace, by ~10 seconds. (Why do they have so much streaming delay?)

https://www.twitch.tv/nasa

⬐ cycomanic

Watching the NASA stream I find it amazing that they as a science organisation are still using non scientific units. All this talk about miles, miles per hour etc.

⬐ smcleod

Yeah that was pretty surprising. Also at the end of the launch the head of NASA came on quoted the Christian bible and then talked about how the telescope is going to look back into (his) gods creation! I was really taken back by that and a little offended that his religion was brought into such an important scientific event.

⬐ oliveshell

I’d imagine that’s for the benefit of the viewing audience more than anything.

⬐ alkonaut

The paying viewers, possibly. The vast majority of viewers are surely metric?

⬐ midasuni

They rely on funding from the US tax payer, they have to speak in US customary units otherwise they get complaints and then pressure in congress and reduced funding.

If Spotify does have a length limit on songs, it's much higher than 7 minutes. Just looking through my recently played collection, I found a 14 minute track from the Mirror's Edge OST - https://open.spotify.com/track/5E3q9mLEXXaLNPc1AWf4lu?si=c2e...

Streaming to YouTube is also great for long-running projects, as they don't appear to have an upper limit on stream length (for example, NASA TV has been streaming since 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg) although I think YouTube won't save the stream if it's longer than 24 hours.

⬐ officeplant

Yeah given Sleep's Dopesmoker is on spotify and clocks in over 58 minutes I'm not sure where this 7 minute limit comes from.

⬐ osivertsson

This sounds like one very professional crew giving advice to each other, but also very tired from the earlier fire alarm when they were sleeping.

Does anyone know why they press on with this spacewalk to continue with the second and third task of the day when it would be reasonable to get some rest and go out another day instead?

Is there some other good forum to discuss these kinds of missions?

Listening in, this reminds me of being outdoors and tired far from civilization in bad weather and knowing that good judgment and clear thinking is key to making it back, while also realizing that your judgment is getting impaired more and more…

⬐ artsyca

Amazing! History in the making wooohooo! Watching from Japan simply breathtaking

Quite honestly the best part for me is seeing old school NASA engineers wearing professional dress including neckties

I don't understand. What is the difference between that video and this [0] one? They're both by NASA.

Then there's also the one by SpaceX [1] for those interested. I know that SpaceX usually has two webcasts going during launches; one for the public-friendly chatter and another for the go/nogo technical chatter

I always look for the SpaceX or NASA official links. Don't search for SpaceX on youtube, you'll drown in unofficial garbage from news companies

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjb9FdVdX5I

⬐ cbhl

I wouldn't be surprised if streaming to two different channels gives them some redundancy...

⬐ alixanderwang

Useful for me since I have the youtube app on my TV and can pull it up.

⬐ localhost

I have no idea why you have a different ID for your first link. But you'll see that the link I posted and your link are both on the official NASA channel.

Congratulations to the team at SpaceX!

They are opening the hatch right now on the stream if anyone here wants to watch along https://youtu.be/21X5lGlDOfg

⬐ api

I really hoped they would hide a rubber face hugger next to Ripley, but I doubt it. Such a missed opportunity.

⬐ clort

If I were those guys up there, I would check the chest cavity, just to be sure..

⬐ srcmap

Here's the recording of the space station astronauts / cosmonaut entering the "Crew Dragon".

https://youtu.be/tfrBm3ZR99M?t=306

Very nice!

Live stream - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg

As of now - it's 90 min to the hatch opening.