Hi, I’m Joy
and I’m Miles.
And we created the video about
NASA’s VISIONS-2 campaign in Svalbard.
It took 3 flights and a bus ride to get there
and when we finally arrived it was around noon,
but it was still pitch dark outside due to the 24-hour darkness.
We wore head lamps everywhere we went, day or night.
The 24-7 darkness wasn’t as jarring as I thought it would be.
But I think that’s because we also had a really hectic schedule.
We’d wake up at 2:30 am every day.
I’d pack all my filming gear and then at 3 am,
we’d head over to wherever we were filming that day.
Probably the hardest thing about covering this mission
was that there were so many different things happening all at the same time.
We really had to plan ahead to figure out
where we were going to be when to capture it all.
One of the things I was most worried about
was being stuck in the block house during launch.
It’s this building right by the rocket
and when you’re in there, you can’t be outside during the launch.
And you could only access that building by car with an escort
and you could only arrive and leave at certain times.
But evidently we didn’t miss the launch.
and it was pretty much the best experience ever.