do you get the NASA channel on your cable?

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

i get here in suburban md/dc. (comcast).

i was just wondering how many others get it.

(pre-emptive joke... we see it but we don't get it)

i was just watching how they tested the airbags for the mars lander.

[XNASA]

1. Indeedy do.

Suburban Chicago. It's on our cable network.

Here's a weblink, if you'd like to view it online:

http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.htm

For those with satellite dishes, NASA TV is broadcast on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. This is a full transponder service and is operational 24 hours a day.

Mission audio is also available during crew working hours -- 1:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Central Time (06:30 - 21:30 GMT) daily -- on AMC-9, Transponder 13, with a frequency of 3960 Mhz.

Contact your cable service provider. Demand your NASA TV!!!!!

[Bridget Burke]

2. Yes--Warner Cable in Houston

We OUGHT to get it here!

I have wondered how many other areas get it.

[terryg11]

3. Used to drive everyone nuts at my parents house

because they get it and everytime I would find it I would watch it, even when they just showed the control room and nothing was going on.

My dream, to be in that room when thre is nothing going on and they are on the air, then to start running around and acting like I'm frantically trying to figure something out. Start franticlly pointing at some lights on a screen or something, just to see if they get some distressed calls about what the hell is going on over at spce control

[XNASA]

4. LOL. Pretty funny. Actually, you wouldn't believe how much is going on.

For every person "on console" in Mission Control, there's probably 20 people supporting that person in a backroom someplace. But those people are never on TV. That's why is looks so boring, so uneventful, so "controlled" in Mission Control itself.

When I worked there, we came up with the idea of this joke:

There used to be lot's of vacationers taking a tour of JSC, everyday. They'd ride around in open trams. Sometimes we'd wave to them, etc. We thought it might be funny to put an alien mask on someone and carry them around on a gurney with a sheet over them, in front of the tourists in one of the trams. Then the "alien" would escape and we'd start chasing them around in the parking lot.

Of course, if we ever did anything like this and got caught, it would probably cost us our jobs. So we left it at that.