Subj : Re: 7 minutes of terror
To   : August Abolins
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Sun Feb 21 2021 11:06 am

Hi August,

On 2021-02-20 21:22:32, you wrote to me:

AA>>> The official NASA TV stream will begin at 2:15 pm EST on Thursday,
AA>>> February 18.
WvV>>
WvV>> That is 20:15 Today, in West Europe... Even better. ;-)


AA> Which feed did you decide to watch?

I switched around a bit, but mostly I watched the "main" channel (or so I gathered, because it had the most viewers >1.2M).

AA> I watched a recorded copy of one with a young well-spoken lady
AA> introducing different engineers and asking good questions.

That probably was before the landing fase?

AA> Sometimes they showed something that looked like a panel of different
AA> analog/digital meters.  i wish they had kept those on the screen ALL the
AA> time in the lower third or something.

I was annoyed by that too. Because that was the only way to track the progress of the landing. But they switched around to views of the people, which was totally boring...

AA> The 7 minutes of terror didn't seem so terrifying without that.

Indeed.

Bye, Wilfred.

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