Space tweets just got real with a new NASA software upgrade for the International Space Station. Now astronauts manning the orbital outpost can finally browse the Web and post Twitter updates directly, without having to first e-mail the tweets to the ground.
During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the Internet via a ground computer. The crew will view the desktop of the ground computer using an onboard laptop, and interact with it remotely.
"Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"
Fellow Twitter users can holler back @Astro_TJ. Or check out more from Creamer, ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Soichi Noguchi at http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts.
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good thing the iss doesn't have real internet, they have already had a computer virus on a computer sent from earth.
I really never expected internet in space. And really? r instead of are... I guess I hold astronauts to higher standards.
twitter has a 140 character limit, I'm sure that is why the abbreviation was used.
Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station.What a cool sentence.I think it will be a werry god thing for the astronuts.No more extreme isolation.internet
Live long and prosper friends.