Over the past two weeks that the staff had been at the base, they have posting daily on LucidNet, dropping videos or images of whatever they had found interesting that day, and felt like sharing.
The base's confidentiality framework covered operational details and proprietary systems. But it did not cover laughing at someone trying to dunk a basketball in the low gravity of the shuttle bay, and so that video existed, and five billion people watched it.
The reactions it produced were a mixture of genuine delight and genuine envy, and most people felt both simultaneously without finding that contradictory.
Some of the popular videos and images were that of them floating in the bay with the shuttle rows visible behind them, golf drives that climbed at angles no atmosphere would allow and disappeared toward the ceiling of the dome.
