NASA Astronauts Live Tweet from International Space Station!

 Timothy Creamer is the first person to tweet from Space. In a first for Twitter and social networking in general, a NASA astronomer updated someone by sending out a tweet from International Space Station to everyone. Here you can see the historical tweet:  Timothy Creamer (twitter ID is http://twitter.com/Astro_TJ), the astronaut who tweeted the first Tweet from I.S.S (International Space Station), says that the team is trying to tweet from the orbit as well. But how he has a net connection in space! Tweeting from space station possible due to a software upgrade by NASA which allowed the astronauts to connect to the Internet. But a still you think about how can a computer network exist in space? NASA has an answer which says that the network used is the “ultimate wireless network connection”.
This personal Web access, called the Crew Support LAN, takes advantage of existing communication links to and from the station and gives astronauts the ability to browse and use the Web. The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment.

Acording the New York Times, the space station is consist of 68 IBM ThinkPad A31 laptops and 32 Lenovo ThinkPad T61p devices. The laptops are all connected via Wi-Fi access points, and “there’s also a dedicated IP phone for phone calls and some limited video-conferencing abilities if astronauts need to see their families.”

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