NASA Astronaut Tweets From Space

Twitterverse just got a whole lot bigger.

NASA astronauts are now equipped with the technology to tweet from space. Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer is the first astronaut to make use of this new system. He sent out his first tweet unassisted on Friday from the space station.

Tweets from space used to be e-mailed to the ground before they are posted by support personnel to the astronauts’ Twitter accounts.

This is all thanks to a new software upgrade, which takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station to allow astronauts to access the web.

From NASA statement:

“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 remotely with their keyboard touchpad.”

Is space going social too?

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Via: Techcrunch