NASA Completely Botched the James Webb Livestream

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NASA Completely Botched the James Webb Livestream
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What a hot mess.

"Deploying a giant infrared space telescope: easy,"For much of the hour-long presentation, Thaller struggled to transition from one section of the presentation to the next, often interrupted by swelling music at inopportune of times.

On more than one occasion, audio feeds from NASA HQ didn't cut out, allowing us to get glimpses of panicked technicians struggling to keep the show together. At another moment, we could hear what sounded like the voices of audio techs loudly whispering on a hot mic.Audio feeds from remote teams around the world were basically nonexistent until the presentation was already well underway.

NASA's solution — they clearly saw this IT travesty coming from a mile away — was to have a backup crew of experts ready to personally run Thaller through the images in the studio. But even this backup plan posed a bit of a challenge. In short, NASA's "superstar media producers," as Thaller referred to them at the end of the stream, should probably go back to the drawing board.

Good thing scientists don't have to rely on NASA livestreams to do their work — if so, the Webb would probably be a smoldering wreck on the launchpad.

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