05-06-2004, 05:30 PM
|
|
Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
|
|
NASA Launches HP iPAQ Pocket PCs into Space; Astronauts Use iPAQs in the International Space Station
"HP today announced that HP iPAQ Pocket PCs are being used in space by the Expedition 9 astronaut and cosmonaut crew aboard the International Space Station Soyuz 8 space craft. The iPAQ h5550 and accompanying accessories were launched on April 19, exactly four years after the introduction of the first iPAQ Pocket PC.
The iPAQs will be used as mobile productivity tools to record daily crew procedures, write personal memos and check e-mail and calendars. The space crew will also be able to listen to music, view photos from home and read e-books, allowing them to have some of the comforts of home on their journey. The devices will remain aboard the space station and be reconfigured for each new crew. For the next flight, two additional iPAQs are expected to launch to the station for a total of four iPAQs.
Ground support at NASA's Johnson Space Center and Russia's Star City Space Center will use the iPAQ Pocket PCs during the training process and to evaluate new applications for future flight crews to use."
Pocket PCs in space. Cool. :way to go:
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 06:06 PM
|
|
Oracle
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 830
|
|
cool. didnt nasa do this before with ipaqs?
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 06:09 PM
|
|
Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 602
|
|
This is interesting, I have theorized that something along the lines of a PPC would be the perfect personal device to take into space. Especially for long duration missions like the space station, and the proposed trip to mars. A PPC like the iPaq 555x or the Toshiba E80x would allow space travellers to carry along alot of data (music, ebooks, pictures, etc.) with very little wieght/space expenditures.
For the Star Trek fans in the crowd, this could be a first gen PAD... could phasers be far behind? :wink:
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 06:24 PM
|
|
Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,398
|
|
Too bad Palm beat us to space -- someone brought an m125 into orbit a few years ago.
Does this mean they have wifi in the ISS?
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 06:30 PM
|
|
Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by David Prahl
Too bad Palm beat us to space -- someone brought an m125 into orbit a few years ago.
Does this mean they have wifi in the ISS?
|
I don't think it's in the ISS, but NASA is apparently working on it. 8)
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 06:58 PM
|
|
Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 323
|
|
Astronauts will certainly enjoy reading ebooks on the iPaq. Books on dead trees would consume too much weight and space. I can picture an astronaut saying to Michael Creighton, "I read your latest novel last month while in orbit. Couldn't put it down."
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 07:19 PM
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 6,878
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by rocky_raher
"I read your latest novel last month while in orbit. Couldn't put it down."
|
O.K., now that was funny! :rotfl:
Steve
__________________
"My eyes are rolling back in my head so far I can see my grey matter bubbling and frothing from reading this thread....bleh." JD
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 08:30 PM
|
|
Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by David Prahl
Too bad Palm beat us to space -- someone brought an m125 into orbit a few years ago.
Does this mean they have wifi in the ISS?
|
I don't think it's in the ISS, but NASA is apparently working on it. 8) |
Awesome. Now let's just hope they enable encryption so their neighbors don't steal the connection.  :lol:
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 09:25 PM
|
|
Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,398
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by OSUKid7
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by David Prahl
Too bad Palm beat us to space -- someone brought an m125 into orbit a few years ago.
Does this mean they have wifi in the ISS?
|
I don't think it's in the ISS, but NASA is apparently working on it. 8) |
Awesome. Now let's just hope they enable encryption so their neighbors don't steal the connection. :lol: |
Or some kid next to Arecibo with a Pringles can! :lol:
(Sorry for the triple quote faux pas)
|
| |
|
|
|
05-06-2004, 09:27 PM
|
|
Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
|
|
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by David Prahl
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by OSUKid7
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Pat Logsdon
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by David Prahl
Too bad Palm beat us to space -- someone brought an m125 into orbit a few years ago.
Does this mean they have wifi in the ISS?
|
I don't think it's in the ISS, but NASA is apparently working on it. 8) |
Awesome. Now let's just hope they enable encryption so their neighbors don't steal the connection. :lol: |
Or some kid next to Arecibo with a Pringles can! :lol:
(Sorry for the triple quote faux pas) |
LMAO...that'd be awesome. (yeah, I seem to get into these multiple quote posts too. :|)
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Linear Mode
