# When will the first ISS post happen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085 "2010-01-23T05:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/1 "2010-01-23T05:39:27Z")
Nasa just gave the[astronauts on the International Space Station access to the Internet](http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/jan/HQ_M10-011_Hawaii221169.html). From the article: 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. The system will provide astronauts with direct private communications to enhance their quality of life during long-duration missions by helping to ease the isolation associated with life in a closed environment. During periods when the station is actively communicating with the ground using high-speed Ku-band communications, the crew will have remote access to the Internet via a ground computer. The crew will view the desktop of the ground computer using an onboard laptop and interact remotely with their keyboard touchpad. Astronauts will be subject to the same computer use guidelines as government employees on Earth. In addition to this new capability, the crew will continue to have official e-mail, Internet Protocol telephone and limited videoconferencing capabilities. [They are using Twitter](http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts), but when will we see a post here from orbit? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/2 "2010-01-23T05:43:53Z")
My first thought was, they didn’t have Internet access already?? That surprised me. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/3 "2010-01-23T08:13:35Z")
I so can’t wait for the first thread titled “ISS question (need answer fast!)”. It sounds like they’re not actually getting internet access, but more like a Remote Desktop feed to a ground computer. I wonder what the feasibility would be to get something like [satelitte internet](http://wildblue.com/) for them. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/4 "2010-01-23T19:33:14Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I wonder what the feasibility would be to get something like [satelitte internet](http://wildblue.com/) for them. Not likely, I suspect. Considering that those satellites are in geostationary orbit, and the ISS is whipping around the globe at high speed, I think that would be much less practical than just direct radio communication with the surface. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/5 "2010-01-23T22:02:19Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > [They are using Twitter](http://twitter.com/NASA_Astronauts), but when will we see a post here from orbit? [Around the same time you asked](http://www.twitlonger.com/show/4ooht) 😉 You have some kind of pull with NASA, **gaffa**. (“Space Station, this is Mission Control, gaffa wants to see a post from orbit, can you help gaffa out?”) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/6 "2010-01-23T23:39:14Z")
> [@dhkendall](#): > > [Around the same time you asked](http://www.twitlonger.com/show/4ooht) 😉 > > You have some kind of pull with NASA, **gaffa**. (“Space Station, this is Mission Control, gaffa wants to see a post from orbit, can you help gaffa out?”) That’s so cool, but I think **gaffa** meant a post _to/on the Dope_, by an astronaut, from orbit. Dopers in Space. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/7 "2010-01-24T01:31:51Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > That’s so cool, but I think **gaffa** meant a post _to/on the Dope_, by an astronaut, from orbit. Dopers in Space. It would have to be written as it was on the Muppet Show… Dopers! In! SPACE! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/8 "2010-01-24T01:35:58Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > [INDENT]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. Just try playing first person shooters with that kind of lag. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/9 "2010-01-24T17:48:20Z")
That would make for an interesting Halls of Reflection run… Astronelf: Hold on, guys…I have to reposition the solar panels, then we can start the Jaina event. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/10 "2010-01-24T22:15:32Z")
No, no, no, the Muppet version would end like this: …SPAAAAAACE! (Not intended as a modified quote, I know the rules!) Gotta stretch out “space” to get it right. Honestly. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-will-the-first-iss-post-happen/526085/11 "2010-01-24T22:27:06Z")
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