Techno Talk

Seemingly something NASA people have been seriously working on in the past, the time has finally come that space twittering has been achieved. Live tweet from space was sent by TJ Creamer, Flight Engineer of Credit Expedition 22, Friday morning. Truly, this is a milestone for the space scientists, engineers and of course, the twittering world.

TJ Creamer sent out the first ever live Tweet in space right from NASA International Space Station and it goes – “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

This was attained through the very remarkable wireless connection called “Crew Support LAN” put up by NASA. In the past, web access was not this advanced that astronauts had to send Twitter messages via email to ground base workers who in turn posts these to Twitter. Talk about geniuses’ work right? NASA has made a wireless connection available directly to the astronauts for better communication with them as well as to give way for the astronauts to keep in touch with their own families back on Earth for the duration of the mission.

Now that web access through Twitter has been successful, people can expect more highlights of this in the next expeditions in space. NASA is sure to improve this technology and bring out its other potential use in the future. And we all can’t wait!