Your Android phone has the power to send extra-terrestrial messages. Fire it up, and you can send messages into the cosmos. Or, at least, to the International Space Station. All you need to do is install the Twidroid Android app from the Android Market, and it’ll do your bidding. Here’s how it works and why your Android will be a willing partner in your quest to reach out to distant galaxies.
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Astronauts hanging out on the International Space Station have had web access since January this year, when NASA announced a special software upgrade would let them use the web just like us Earthlings. Since then, they’ve been communicating with Earth more regularly, and you can get in touch too, just by using your Android phone.
Set up your Android phone properly, and you can fire questions to the astronauts in a jiffy. Just tap into www.Twitter.com and open a free Twitter account. Once that’s done, point your Android phone at the Android Market, download Twidroid and using your Twitter account.
Send queries to astronauts in orbit by beginning them with @Astro_TJ. That’ll get to Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer, who’s first message arrived safely on Earth earlier this year: “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! 
More soon, send your ?s.”
You can also tweet T.J.’s crewmates ISS Commander Jeff Williams and Soichi Noguchi by beginning your messages @NASA_astronauts. And don’t forget you can tweet with photo attachments to them as well, reminding them what it’s like back on terra firma and making sure they’re not too homesick.
You can also use your Android phone’s browser to load www.issfanclub.com, where you can track the International Space Station on a map of the world, as well as keeping tabs on what the ISS’s astronauts are up to when they’re not tweeting.
