Re: Space Station Error

From: Mike Simmons (mikes_at_nospam.mtwilson.edu)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:50:25 -0800

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:10:36 GMT, Florian <Florian@remove.stargazing.com>
wrote:

> My local TV news station reported this too. They didn't say where
> to look. They didn't say the time to look. Somehow the media got
> hold of blurb that the space station was going to be visible
> and they're all repeating the same non-information junk. Yes, it's
> going to be visible, as it is often, but without more specific
> information such reports are useless.

It probably started with this press release from NASA about ISS viewing
possibilities:

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/dec/HQ_04406_ss_visible.html

AP picked it up and wrote an article on it that included the link NASA
gave for getting details of sightings
(http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/isssightings), see for example:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&ncid=1894&e=8&u=/ap/20041222/ap_on_sc/brf_space_station

What the local papers and TV news will do with it after that cannot be
predicted, even by NASA.

Mike Simmons

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