Yahoo Offers Live Shuttle Video Stream

By Geoff Duncan Published July 13, 2005

Yahoo announced today it will provide free Windows Media format video streams of the 12-day space shuttle Discovery mission via Yahoo Web sites and the NASA home page. The video will be NASA’s official video coverage of the flight, and include lift-off, 24/7 coverage of the mission itself, and the return landing. The video will be promoted throughout Yahoo’s network of services.

The Discovery mission was originally scheduled to launch July 13 for a planned 12-day mission, during which it would rendezvous with the International Space Station and test methods for repairing heat-protecting tiles on the shuttle itself. The mission will mark the first shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster in which all seven astronauts died during re-entry. However, NASA scrubbed the launch with just over two hours left in the launch countdown due to a faulty fuel-tank sensor. No new launch schedule has been announced.

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The streaming video arrangement marks one of NASA’s first media partnerships with online media providers. NASA said video streaming in conjunction with Yahoo enables it to provide high-quality access to the video feeds via the Internet at no additional costs to taxpayers. Separately, media-streaming company Akamai Technologies will provide the same NASA video feed for RealPlayer via the NASA Web site.

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