You can fire up Twitter from just about anywhere courtesy of your mobile, but now another location’s been added to the microblogging start up’s reach: space. Don’t astronauts have anything better to do with their time? Read on for what they’ve been stuffing into 140 characters high above the stratosphere.
Until now, astronauts on the International Space Station haven’t had direct access to the internet, instead having to relay information to NASA on the ground. But now a software upgrade has allowed everyone onboard to jump directly onto the net, and unsurprisingly, the first thing Expedition 22 Flight Engineer T.J Creamer fired up was Twitter.
“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space!” he wrote on the @NASA_Astronauts account.
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In between (presumably) poking people on Spacebook and watching their number of Twitters followers “rocketing”, the astronauts have also been sharing satellite imagery, tweeting about tasks on the Space Station (“getting ready for Shuttle arrival”) and asking for questions, which they promise to start answering soon – yesterday was a “day off” for the ISS crew however.
Got something to ask NASA’s tweeting astronauts about life in zero gravity? You can ping them a message on Twitter now at @NASA_Astronauts, @Astro_Soichi and @Astro_TJ.
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