The Discovery Channel is running a two-hour special on the Shuttle return to flight tonight.

I caught a few minutes at the end of the first airing -- looks pretty good, aside from the erroneous claim that the ET for STS-114 was a completely new design. Oops. I'm curious to see whether any contractor personnel are interviewed, or whether it is strictly NASA -- the last twenty minutes appeared to be the latter.

UPDATE: The matter of contractors was...puzzling. If you didn't know better, you might have thought that all the people interviewed in the documentary were NASA civil servants...the on-screen nametags were strangely vague, identifying the speaker by name and function, but giving no affiliation (whether NASA, USA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, etc.). Likewise, one could be forgiven for thinking that all the RTF work was being done by NASA itself, aside from the oddly frequent shot of the outside of a Lockheed Martin office building (which, I noted, was not sporting the appropriate corporate identity). It was really a minor matter, though, mostly making me curious as to whether NASA's PR folks stipulated such an arrangement in exchange for TDC getting access.