Author Topic: BBC The World Debate - Space Flight (Read 1820 times)

Star One · « **on:** 07/13/2019 06:17 pm »

This week on this BBC World Service program they are talking to space engineers from NASA, ISRO & ESA.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz4q3

The oddest thing about this program is even when commercial spaceflight was raised as a question by the audience Space X didn’t get mentioned. In fact the only mention they got was a very brief namecheck in relation to Starlink. Even odder was when they were talking about going to Mars.

saturnapollo · « **Reply #1 on:** 07/14/2019 06:29 pm »

As I understand it Musk fell out with the BBC and won't grant them any access.

Star One · « **Reply #2 on:** 07/14/2019 07:35 pm »

Quote from: saturnapollo on 07/14/2019 06:29 pm

As I understand it Musk fell out with the BBC and won't grant them any access.

I’ve never heard that before?

Oersted · « **Reply #3 on:** 07/14/2019 09:25 pm »

Because of the Top Gear spat?

Star One · « **Reply #4 on:** 07/16/2019 01:49 pm »

Quote from: Oersted on 07/14/2019 09:25 pm

Because of the Top Gear spat?

Never heard of that?

Oersted · « **Reply #5 on:** 07/16/2019 08:49 pm »

A car show on BBC that criticised Tesla cars unfairly and drew Musk's ire.

DistantTemple · « **Reply #6 on:** 07/16/2019 09:19 pm »

well since Jeremy Clarkson was disgraced for handing out black eyes, was deposed from the program, sold his 50% stake in the program to the BBC, etc ... and ... ev's have gained market momentum, and Top Gear have given some good reviews of Tesla cars....
Its surprising the old feud is still going. The BBC had better remove its blinkers....
BBC news has plenty of EM stories: https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=elon+musk

Anthropic · « **Reply #7 on:** 07/16/2019 10:14 pm »

An interesting side note: BBC's Stargazing Live series aired a show last night on the Apollo 11 anniversary that spent a lot of time also talking about the future of crewed spaceflight. They did mention SpaceX, but ULA and Boeing gave them a ton of special access. In the first 40 minutes (of 90) alone, they did a live shot on the Crew Access Tower at Launch Complex 41 including an interview inside of the white room, Brian Cox interviewed a CST-100 engineer inside of the former OPF3, and Hannah Fry interviewed Sunita Williams inside of the CST-100 trainer at JSC.

Star One · « **Reply #8 on:** 08/11/2019 08:19 pm »

Quote from: Anthropic on 07/16/2019 10:14 pm

An interesting side note: BBC's Stargazing Live series aired a show last night on the Apollo 11 anniversary that spent a lot of time also talking about the future of crewed spaceflight. They did mention SpaceX, but ULA and Boeing gave them a ton of special access. In the first 40 minutes (of 90) alone, they did a live shot on the Crew Access Tower at Launch Complex 41 including an interview inside of the white room, Brian Cox interviewed a CST-100 engineer inside of the former OPF3, and Hannah Fry interviewed Sunita Williams inside of the CST-100 trainer at JSC.

I was coming on here to say the exact same thing as I was catching up on a recording of the show. The lopsided nature of the coverage was ridiculous. It was so bad I’d argue it almost discredited the program.