Discovery On The Internet

Many eyes right watch NASA and the Discovery as they work to resolve the fuel sensor problem and get the shuttle back in the sky. A best-case scenario would be Sunday but more likely it will be later in the week. Certainly less dramatic but certainly work mentioning is the fact that some eyes will be able to watch the mission in an entirely new way, over the Internet. This marks the first time NASA has used the Internet to cover the shuttle missions around the clock. They've certainly utilized television before. People were able to watch Neil Armstrong play golf on the moon and since NASA doesn't just use technology, they are technology, this makes absolute sense. They've given two minor companies called Yahoo and AOL, access to just about the entire mission from liftoff until touch down. AOL does have neat feature with their coverage and that's the multi camera view of the whole thing including a "beach tracker view, a long range view, a camera actually mounted on the external tank which works until the solid rocket boosters dropped. "By offering multiple live simultaneous video streams of the shuttle launch, we are providing an interactive experience for users, letting them decide how they want to watch NASA's highly anticipated return to space," said Lewis D'Vorkin, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, AOL News & Sports. "No other online news site can match the interactive, live, unfiltered and on-demand video coverage we are providing through the AOL.com portal." Yahoo is able to boast running the coverage on NASA's website on a co-branded Windows Media Player and it will stream the mission's official online video from both NASA's site and Yahoo. Both companies will offer round-the-clock coverage of the 12-day mission covering nearly all aspects. People will be able to head to either NASA'sYahoo's or