The International Space Station Linked to the Internet …”About a Month Ago”?
February 15, 2010 at 8:09 PM Leave a comment
I’m watching the CBS Evening “News” – a report about how the wife of one of the astronauts on the International Space Station communicates with him. The reporter said the space station, “got Internet about a month ago.” About a month ago?
I’m not the most tech savvy person on Earth by any stretch of the imagination but I “got Internet” in roughly 2002. The International Space Station “got Internet about a month ago?”
What? This changes the way I think about NASA and the space program. I imagined they were playing around with technologies we hadn’t heard of or dreamed of yet and that they were light years ahead of us mere mortals.
Guess. Not.
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