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The live stream of the launch was foreboding: low resolution, poor tracking and constant cutouts. It's saddening to see how much worse was is than 1969.
To be fair it was cutting edge SiFi come to life in 1969. This is at least 30 years too late for that sort of world of tomorrow excitement. Is there even anything 'cutting edge' on this launch? I mean Outlook, really? Outlook poor if that is the best they could do.
Yeah, I rewatched the launch from Everyday Astronaut's livestream and he actually had better footage, he had a tracking camera showing the booster separation
Outside of the launch part, I think it's mostly because SpaceX has set the standard so high, with tons of high resolution cameras streaming over Starlink even during reentry
SpaceX does a good job, but it didn't exist in 1969. My own take on this is that as a society we simply don't care and are generally worse at our jobs.
It's always assumed that things are constantly getting better, but I'm reminded at moments like this that over the course of nearly 60 years, we've not progressed as much as we'd like to think.