Tweets from Space
Timothy Creamer, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, sent the first “unassisted,” real-time tweet from space, using NASA’s new Crew Support LAN software, Mashable reported.
The tweet, from Creamer’s @Astro_TJ account, read:
Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station—the 1st live tweet from Space! 🙂 More soon, send your ?s
From NASA’s description of Crew Support LAN:
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.
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