USA Wins Twitter from Space Race
PrintAlright, so this isn't quite as dramatic as the first manned-space mission or (allegedly) landing on the moon, but thank to a special software upgrade earlier this week, we've now recorded the first Twitter message from space.
"Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s," Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer tweeted.
There have been other Twitter messages delivered from space, but in each of those cases, the tweets had to be emailed to the ground and posted by support personnel. That makes this the first tweet from space, not just originating from space.
NASA states that during periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, astronauts will be able to remotely log into a ground computer using their onboard laptop.
You can follow Twitter updates from Creamer and two of his crewmates (ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Soichi Noguchi) right here.
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eday_2010
January 23, 2010 at 3:19pm
that the Soviet Union, who were the other player in the space race, watched the space ship the entire time with satellites. now, if the US never landed on the moon, wouldn't the USSR have said something? You know, with to Cold War going on and all.
The Soviets never said the US didn't land on the moon, so any doubts are pretty much moot.
Lhot
January 22, 2010 at 9:56pm
..or is this just bad sentence structure? I mean with a good enough telescope you can actually SEE the astronauts footprints, still there on the Moons surface?
The "CLOUD" is the biggest mistake this country has made...EVER !
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