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MEDIA BLUNDERS - IBNLIVE.COM GOOF-UP ON NASA PROBE
CNN-IBN beats Nasa to space!
BY JAMES MATHEW
18th January 2006
Breaking news was never better. Today, CNN-IBN beat Nasa to space, by launching Nasa's spacecraft to Pluto without Nasa's knowledege.
Nasa was supposed to launch the spacecraft on Tuesday evening. I was excited about the launch of the nine-year trip, and the first thing I did on waking up this morning was to clamber on to the Web to find out about the progress of the mission, called New Horizons.
Nasa disappointed me. The launch was postponed, said the Nasa website: "Try, Try again," said their headline.
However, CNN-IBN was more proactive: "Nasa launches spacecraft to Pluto," informed a front page headline: The story, written by Sakthy Edamaruku, (some mysterious Nasa space scientist?) read: Florida: NASA launched a piano-sized spacecraft to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the Solar System. New Horizons is the spacecraft that took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Tuesday."
CNN-IBN also carried a hazy picture of the spacecraft.
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can see the page on the IBN website here, if it still exists
If not, you can view screenshots here
and the day's front page with the headline here
update: aT 5:45 pm, we notice that the story has been changed to
"NASA scrubs Pluto launch". However, the accompanying picture and
caption says this: "PLUTO PROBE: NASA launched New Horizons to Pluto, the
last unexplored planet in the Solar System." IBN video guys and
photographers have time travel, while reporters don't, it looks like to us. Whatever
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Useless Nasa! They said: "During the first launch attempt on Jan. 17, the countdown was extended several times in hopes that excessive upper level and ground winds would die down. But ultimately, the winds surpassed limits during the final minutes, preventing a liftoff. The spacecraft and launch vehicle remained healthy throughout the countdown, with no technical issues. NASA will try again on Wednesday, Jan. 18 to launch an Atlas V rocket carrying the New Horizons spacecraft. The launch window extends from 1:16 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. EST."
It's time for our ISRO space scientists to apply for IBN jobs. Rush before vacancies fill out!
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