The voice of "Shuttle Launch Control"

"Take Your Daughter to Work Day" is a fine and worthy concept, but is
shuttle Return-to-Flight the appropriate day for KSC PAO to put it into
effect?

I'm sure she is a delightful person, and undoubtedly has risen up through
the ranks over a period of many years to get to her current position... but
would it be possible for NASA to find a spokesperson who can read a script
without hesitating and stumbling?

For the 9:30 EDT update, she was narrating a canned video about the ET
changes, and it appears that some "joker" replaced the description of the
bipod changes with a redundant description of the feedline bellows changes.
She just went ahead and read the bellows narration over the bipod video
and, when the bellows changes were shown, she read it again.

Anybody else miss John "Shorty" Powers?

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The bimbettes are there to quell the nerd factor, which turns off half
the audience for shuttle launches. You're right about the dumbed down
coverage. CNN Miles O'Brien couldn't explain launch windows without
using football analogies and talking about 'motion lotion', whatever
that is. Also none of the "onsite" anchors picked up on the launch
scrub for about 5 minutes even though Shuttle Launch Control
commentators actually anticipated the scrub by about a minute.