Phone Calls and E-Mails from Space
By
Tom Shoop
There's a great little piece in National Journal today on NASA astronaut Mark Kelly interrupting an interview with a reporter to take a phone call from his twin brother, Scott, who is serving as a commander aboard the International Space Station.
It included this nugget from Mark Kelly about additional forms of communication with astronauts in mid-mission:
"Sometimes [astronauts on the space station] have Internet access, though it's very slow. Normally, when you send them an e-mail, it just sits over at Mission Control for a couple hours before they sync up the Outlook mailbox on the Station."