Shuttle Internet Service

As we all know the Shuttle is a very complex, and apparently fragile,
space vehicle. It has all types of communication and telemetry systems.
Could it be possible that the Shuttle crew has internet service on
board? The technology for this is certainly possible.
And what if they do in fact have it? Is it possible that they have
possibly subscribed to the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup?
What would you say to the Shuttle crew if you knew that they were
reading these postings? Be careful now. We do not know their capability.

"RA-5C" wrote in message
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As we all know the Shuttle is a very complex, and apparently fragile,
space vehicle. It has all types of communication and telemetry systems.
Could it be possible that the Shuttle crew has internet service on
board? The technology for this is certainly possible.
And what if they do in fact have it? Is it possible that they have
possibly subscribed to the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup?
What would you say to the Shuttle crew if you knew that they were
reading these postings? Be careful now. We do not know their capability.


WTF? So what if they do or not? They can read this all when they get home,
same as everyone else.

As to what they think, they're probably equal parts ****ed off on the one
hand and rolling on their asses laughing on the other

RA-5C wrote:

Could it be possible that the Shuttle crew has internet service on
board?

They certainly have email. Paul Hill has stated as much:

"We haven't talked to the crew about it today because the crew has
been busy pretty much from wake-up and they're going to stay busy
right up until they have to go to sleep. But I did send a couple of
e-mails to them this morning explaining to them where we were," he
said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/space/0...tle/index.html
--
Andy Williams

"RA-5C" wrote:

Could it be possible that the Shuttle crew has internet service on
board? The technology for this is certainly possible.
And what if they do in fact have it?


They're no doubt downloading the latest Coldplay single off iTunes, in that
case.

Like they're wasting their time weeding through the idiotic troll postings
here...

In article , RA-5C wrote:
As we all know the Shuttle is a very complex, and apparently fragile,
space vehicle. It has all types of communication and telemetry systems.
Could it be possible that the Shuttle crew has internet service on
board? The technology for this is certainly possible.
And what if they do in fact have it? Is it possible that they have
possibly subscribed to the sci.space.shuttle newsgroup?
What would you say to the Shuttle crew if you knew that they were
reading these postings? Be careful now. We do not know their capability.

They have e-mail access over an encrypted connection, as I seem to recall.

A few astronauts has lurked here over the years, but they ordinarily
just don't have the time nor interest, and don't want to open up their
email address to spam, 'interesting people', and the crowds.

Can't say I blame them. I'm sure they'd like to think about stuff other
than the Shuttle program when not working.

-Dan