Astronauts Finally Get Internet Access on Space Station, Send First Tweet From Space

Ain't no tweet like an astronaut tweet

By Jeremy Hsu Posted 01.22.2010 at 1:58 pm 4 Comments

Space Tweet Live from space, it's Twitter time NASA

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.

T.J. Creamer, a flight engineer with the space station's Expedition 22, showed off his mastery of netizen lingo by posting his first unassisted Twitter update on Friday.

"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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animemaster

01/22/10 at 5:06 pm

good thing the iss doesn't have real internet, they have already had a computer virus on a computer sent from earth.

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winterflop

01/23/10 at 2:54 am

I really never expected internet in space. And really? r instead of are... I guess I hold astronauts to higher standards.

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CoolHand032

01/23/10 at 6:37 pm

twitter has a 140 character limit, I'm sure that is why the abbreviation was used.

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Sheetz

06/08/10 at 4:50 pm

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.

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