Danny Deger schreef:
"Peter O" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff schreef:
Well, maybe you might hear an Astronaut swear or something. Surely people
deserve some privacy.

Brian

I believe the flight loop can be heard on NASA-TV during Shuttle missions.
And you get some commentary explaining what is heard and seen.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

However only one hour a day of ISS expedition coverage is usually
programmed. The flight loop for ISS might not be that interesing after all
as it is often silent for extended periods of time. The nature of
activities on board the ISS do not require that much coordination with
mission control centers. Compared to Shuttle missions ofcourse.

Peter

You my be getting the flight loop confused with the air-to-ground loop. The
flight loop is the loop everyone talks to the flight director on. I have
never heard it on a shuttle launch. I would think it would be fairly busy
during a space walk. Even on a boring ISS flight there is a lot of
coordination of routine plans on the flight loop. If nothing else just
administrative stuff on people coming and leaving the MCC.

Danny Deger


Indeed I got confused. Apologies for that. However I, as an outsider,
cannot imagine being able to listen to all that chatter. It probably
consists mostly of NASA abbreviations and procedure numbers. All very
enlightening without a reference list. ;-)


Peter