Anousheh Ansari is the first female space tourist, as well as the first female Muslim and Iranian in space. That's pretty cool. But what does a space tourist bring with her to help ease her to sleep? Why what has become a traveler's best friend, an iPod. Anousheh blogs about her experiences on the ISS (International Space Station) and she notes that before hitting the hay, while traveling on the Soyuz capsule bound for the ISS, she slipped on her headphones and rocked out to her iPod.Makes me wonder how many iPods have been in space.
Thanks, Dhanur.
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9-26-2006 @ 2:16PM
Carl Trimble said...
I took mine when I was abducted.
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9-26-2006 @ 2:36PM
Kyp said...
Goo to know they work in Zero G. Now I just need to figure the knob that controls the G in my house.
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9-26-2006 @ 2:46PM
Tommy said...
Good thing she didn't take a zune. Then she would only be only be able to listen for five minutes before the OS crashed.
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9-26-2006 @ 3:01PM
Azhar said...
Ive been trying to think of someone to ask that question too for ages... My fisher space pen works in space but does my ipod..... Know I know
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9-26-2006 @ 4:40PM
Dmitry Chestnykh said...
Mark Shuttleworth said thay had the old laptops with Windows NT/95 there at ISS in space :)
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9-26-2006 @ 4:47PM
zzagatus said...
I hope that the lithium ion battery in the iPod doesn't explode in the space station.
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9-26-2006 @ 5:09PM
derek said...
they dont wanna bring the zune...
"houston, we have a problem..."
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9-26-2006 @ 5:17PM
Pale Rider said...
All astronauts have the option of taking an ipod.
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9-26-2006 @ 8:07PM
Stephen Macklin said...
RAM or hard drive based?
Would the lack of gravity play havoc with the hard drive?
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9-27-2006 @ 6:53AM
Eric said...
the centrifugal force of the spinning platters creates enough gravity to keep the heads in check.. they float above the platters anyway. Laptops (With hardrives) have been used in space for years, heck, even cd players and floppy drives for that matter.
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9-28-2006 @ 4:29AM
Mac Lover said...
Wonder how many electric nose pickers have been in space??
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