NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space


Sun, 01/24/2010 - 15:20 — Andy

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week - personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.

Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer made first use of the new system Friday, when he posted the first unassisted update to his Twitter account, @Astro_TJ, from the space station. Previous tweets from space had to be e-mailed to the ground where support personnel posted them to the astronaut's Twitter account.






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thats one computer I --

thats one computer I wouldn't mind getting a trojan installed on lol



Ooft that would cause --

Ooft that would cause carnage. Not for too many people perhaps, but a rogue space station?



lol, deffers, its just --

lol, deffers, its just asking for trouble.

No doubt theres a million safe guards but thats what the hackers will see as the challenge, especially those government lead hackers from Russian and China.



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