Скачать или смотреть NASA Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal 2: Really good, little bad, but still some ugly coverage

Everyone else has already moved on from the successful Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal on Thursday, February 19th, because less than a day later something broke on the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage and that means rollback and delays and an uncertain launch schedule. But before I move on, too, I'll run through my thoughts about NASA's coverage of the second WDR, which continues a pattern of obscuring or muting critical countdown events as they happen live.

NASA may be of the opinion that technical events only matter on launch day or are more dramatic if you only show or acknowledge them on launch day, but we're once again seeing that things matter before then, whether or not it's during big pre-launch tests.

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00:00 Intro
01:09 Overview of Wet Dress Rehearsal 2 and coverage
04:32 A short history of Artemis WDRs and WDR coverage
07:39 WDR 2, the good: more views, up-close views
12:36 The not quite as good: making it hard to tell what's happening