Screen shots taken off live NASA TV broadband Net feed.
Posted on Slashdot.org Space category by michael on Monday December 11, @06:08PM, 2002?
By Caleb John Clark.

Dateline: Earth Orbit, Thursday, December 7th. A pudgy white gloved monkey-like hand reaches for a tool while Earth rotates in the background. American and Russian ground control kept track of Shuttle Endeavor as it spun around Earth lip locked to International Space Station.

Ground control is live and unedited, breaking the silence of space with classic static laden military radio speak. They need a sysadmin. Russians was heard complaining that "The American's want to send a PDF file." Another person adding, "Why can't they just send a Word Doc.?" Also, ground control had to lead an astronaut through running Scandisk on a Shuttle laptop. But the visuals! I was smitten with this space media and kept snapping screen grabs off the excellent broadband feed off Space.com of NASA's first mission using HelmetCams on space suits

Suits filled with sack-o-wet-monkey meat that is yet again building things to extend its limited abilities.

They worked high above the shuttle, holding on tight. At times you could read the ship names. I kept taking cool screen shots as the two astronauts worked to fix the solar panels. At times the station seemed to reach towards earth with thick walls of technology, curved golden arches of mysterious machines, or shots that looked like a chase scene in space.

Earth spun below the workers for six hours until the panels were fixed. They were beautiful. Before ingressing, they copied an Earthy construction tradition and put up an evergreen tree for good luck. This was an historic monkey moment. A giant step for space media.

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