Author Topic: Feature: Josh Byerly shares his experiences on being a voice for NASA  (Read 21616 times)

Offline Chris Bergin

A really fascinating feature based on an interview between Josh and Marshall Murphy. I'm sure you'll all enjoy this!

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/12/josh-byerly-experiences-being-voice-for-nasa/

Josh is a member here and said he'd be happy to take any follow up questions too! :)
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Favorite NASA TV person by a long way. Really enjoyed the article!

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Excellent article as always from NSF.

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In those instances, NASA has precise plans in place, according to Byerly.

“There are very in-depth contingency plans for different scenarios,” Byerly said. “The one that we had for shuttle was based on lessons learned during Challenger and Columbia, and there’s various versions of that for ISS and the other launches we do. And we developed a version of it for the SpaceX and Orbital flights.

“It’s very prescriptive and specific, even down to what camera angles are shown and what happens on NASA TV.”

You know, I never really thought about this before, but it's so obvious now that I've heard about it. I'm curious as to what those plans are... but of course I'm going to assume they're held onto pretty tightly, so I suppose I'll just continue wondering  :P

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Great read! One of the NASA PAOs who sounded like he was interested and talking to you, rather than reading off a script. There's not really any bad ones, he was just that good.

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Favorite NASA TV person by a long way. Really enjoyed the article!

I appreciate that!

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Excellent article as always from NSF.

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In those instances, NASA has precise plans in place, according to Byerly.

“There are very in-depth contingency plans for different scenarios,” Byerly said. “The one that we had for shuttle was based on lessons learned during Challenger and Columbia, and there’s various versions of that for ISS and the other launches we do. And we developed a version of it for the SpaceX and Orbital flights.

“It’s very prescriptive and specific, even down to what camera angles are shown and what happens on NASA TV.”


You know, I never really thought about this before, but it's so obvious now that I've heard about it. I'm curious as to what those plans are... but of course I'm going to assume they're held onto pretty tightly, so I suppose I'll just continue wondering  :P

The plans just cover things like what the commentator is supposed to do, what the production team is supposed to do with the cameras, what goes on NASA.gov, what goes out on social media, who is in the news conference a couple of hours after the mishap, etc. You saw a lot of it in action after the Orbital flight.

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Damn, that covered so much! Thanks Marshall and thanks Josh!

Can you say who you're working for now Josh? Are there fans of another industry getting the pleasure of your coverage?

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Very good read chaps!

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Great! Echo the above, always felt like I was going to enjoy the coverage more when Josh's voice came over the webcast.

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Damn, that covered so much! Thanks Marshall and thanks Josh!

Can you say who you're working for now Josh? Are there fans of another industry getting the pleasure of your coverage?

Haha...I'm handling internal communications for part of a big company....It's a totally different job, so I've hung up the microphone, as they say.

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Really enjoyed this video that Josh did a few years back regarding the Soyuz.
[youtube]zxO-pM1lLZ0[/youtube]

Well, thanks. That was one of the RARE times I wasn't freezing to death over there.

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Interesting article! Hey Josh, also a big fan as everyone here. Did you get to do dry runs in commentating on coverage like ascents with the rest of the MOD guys, or in some NASA PAO class? :)

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Interesting article! Hey Josh, also a big fan as everyone here. Did you get to do dry runs in commentating on coverage like ascents with the rest of the MOD guys, or in some NASA PAO class? :)

Great question. Yeah, you actually sit with the MCC team during some of the ascent and landing sims, and you sit back there and sort of run through things and practice the pacing of the calls. Since 133 kept slipping, I actually did about 8 sims, I think, and all of them were some sort of abort. I got really, really good at calling TALs, and they even threw in an ECAL and an RTLS. Those were sporty, to say the least.
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Damn, that covered so much! Thanks Marshall and thanks Josh!
Ditto!  Nice interview and story.

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Really enjoyed this video that Josh did a few years back regarding the Soyuz.
[youtube]zxO-pM1lLZ0[/youtube]

Well, thanks. That was one of the RARE times I wasn't freezing to death over there.
Those Behind the Scenes videos that you did with Mike Massimino (and that one without) were really fun to watch.  Thanks for the interview!
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Really enjoyed this video that Josh did a few years back regarding the Soyuz.
[youtube]zxO-pM1lLZ0[/youtube]

Well, thanks. That was one of the RARE times I wasn't freezing to death over there.
Those Behind the Scenes videos that you did with Mike Massimino (and that one without) were really fun to watch.  Thanks for the interview!

My pleasure. The Behind the Scenes series was fun to do, because it was the first time we sort of pulled back the curtain and showed the crews training, people working around the center, the trainers, etc. They were rough around the edges, but that's what it was supposed to be. I had planned on doing another episode for a Soyuz launch, but I ended up doing nothing but landings the last couple of years.

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Great to see this article about Josh. Happy to hear you're doing well!

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Interesting article! Hey Josh, also a big fan as everyone here. Did you get to do dry runs in commentating on coverage like ascents with the rest of the MOD guys, or in some NASA PAO class? :)

Great question. Yeah, you actually sit with the MCC team during some of the ascent and landing sims, and you sit back there and sort of run through things and practice the pacing of the calls. Since 133 kept slipping, I actually did about 8 sims, I think, and all of them were some sort of abort. I got really, really good at calling TALs, and they even threw in an ECAL and an RTLS. Those were sporty, to say the least.

I've always wondered. What is your console like? You seem to have sat at a similar console to CAPCOM, but I don't think we ever saw what the displays look like.

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Great to see this article about Josh. Happy to hear you're doing well!

Much appreciated!

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