Space shuttle launch on TV
? Television New Zealand’s Network One will have delayed coverage of the launching of the United States space shuttle Columbia from 6 a.m. on Thursday. A television spokesman . said from Wellington last evening that the early-morn-ing time had been chosen “because we want to give the biggest possible audience — teen-agers, school-children, businessmen — a chance to see it.”
.If all goes according to plan, New Zealanders will see the Columbia blast off about 7.30 a.m.
The spokesman said that direct coverage of the
launching would have started about 1.30 a.m. on Thursday and lasted for two hours.
“We thought that would have been a less reasonable viewing time,” he said. The return of the shuttle to earth will also be covered on Network One, from 6 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10. It is due back at 5140 a.m.
New Zealanders would have seen live television coverage of the first launching of the Columbia a few months ago, but they watched in vain until the small hours as the shuttle sat on the launching pad, delayed by a technical problem.
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