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."
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Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
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