Flying W Things

When you have a space shuttle in orbit, all pictures should be From Space. Okay, maybe the occasional shot of the mission control center, but only if at least 2/3rds of the big monitor walls are visible.

If you're having a press conference, fine. Show pictures from space and run the audio from the conference underneath it.

I do not want to see engineers and technologists wearing sports coats made of burlap stumbling through their prepared statements and giving "technology demos" involving falconry gloves and large c-clamps.

I want to see the earth slowly sliding underneath the space shuttle. I want to wonder what it's like to try to get work done in space when there's so much cool stuff to look at. I want a vicarious little taste of what the astronauts are doing and seeing.

Seriously.