‘Howl at the moon’: NASA’s bid to boost space enthusiasm

Houston –

When NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville was working a shift during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight, he realized the U.S. space agency wasn’t consistently livestreaming the spacecraft’s journey to Earth.

“They said, well, we don’t have bandwidth, we’ve got to get all this vehicle and engineering data down,” Scoville recalled. “I was like — wrong.”

“This program will be over if people don’t buy it and they don’t come with us.”