To be fair, there were a ton of international mirrors in popular streaming services (livestream.com, ustream.tv) as well as international news agencies (bbc.co.uk for example) which worked flawlessly.

I was watching livestream.com using VLC + livestreamer script and it worked without any issues.

The problem is that these mirrors should have been listed clearly at the nasatv site as well as in www.nasa.gov/orion.

I found it funny how people were posting ustream mirrors. All of ustream was struggling, so all the re-streams were buffering too.

Actually I'd put them on around the same level of complexity from an engineering perspective.

Have you thought, recently, how difficult it really is to broadcast video to millions of viewers and all of the individual moving parts that make that happen? It's mind boggling.

> Have you thought, recently, how difficult it really is to broadcast video to millions of viewers and all of the individual moving parts that make that happen? It's mind boggling.

Yes. And as far as I can tell, YouTube has it down to a science. If I were NASA, I would let YouTube broadcast the live stream, and embed a YouTube player on the NASA website.

> "YouTube has it down to a science"

Yes, but arguably, NASA has rocket science down to a science too. My point still stands: it's still a pretty complex and difficult thing to pull off with a high rate of consistency.

In their defense, rocket technology has been around for quite a bit longer than IP video streaming.