Re: Soyuz TMA-11 Comes Home, More or Less...

On Apr 23, 2:02 am, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
James Oberg was just on NBC news saying the same thing.
This was accompanied by great animation of  a joined orbital module and
descent module entering the atmosphere with the crew landing in the
orbital module. :-D
...
Pat

Pat,

I thought maybe I was the only one who noticed the mistake in the NBC
animation. After reading a few of your posts, I can see you've spent
even more time than me reading about the Soviet... uh, excuse me, I'm
showing my age, now it's the "RUSSIAN" space program!

MSNBC plays the clip at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619#24261472

I was already working online when the news aired last night on the
east coast, so I quickly e-mailed NBC News about the animation,
telling them I was just a nerd trying to be helpful. Surprisingly, Tom
Costello responded within minutes, with one of their producers
ultimately sending me this e-mail later last night:

From: Monahan, Kevin (NBC Universal)
To: 'spazhoward'
Sent: Tue Apr 22 21:52:37 2008
Subject: NBC News thank you
I just wanted to write you in order to thank you for your e-mail this
evening. Because of your information, we were able to fix the graphic
for the rest of the country tonight in Tom Costello's piece. Call
yourself a nerd if you want, but you helped us make a correction for
several million of our viewers tonight. Sorry for our mistake. Thanks
again,
Kevin Monahan
Nightly News with Brian Williams

I'd be interested in hearing if anyone on the west coast saw the
animation and noticed if they got it right, and maybe just didn't
update the website (or maybe they just flipped the orbital module this
time and THOUGHT they fixed the animation?)
.