“The Johnson Space Center has released a batch of images that relate to the launch of the Space Shuttle this weekend — and it looks like an iPod’s got a seat on the International Space Station,” Jonny Evans reports for Macworld UK.
“European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Thomas Reiter is on board the International Space Station — with his iPod. An image released by NASA clearly shows an iPod and a Belkin external battery pack taped to the equipment rack in front of the astronaut,” Evans reports.
Full article here.
NASA images here.
…consider the towel thrown
Let’s hope next time instead of IBM Thinkpads (there are 2 of them) we will see a 13″ MacBook Pro (yeah I know they still don’t exist but…)
The article states the iPod is connected to a Belkin battery holder.
Does DRM even work in space?
Who cares about the iPod, the guys got a lot of great camera equipment in front of him.
That looks like an older iPod. Apple needs to give every astronaut an iPod of their choice. You can’t buy better publicity than this…
Funny part is the iPod is probably more more powerful with a bigger drive than any on board computers the Apollo 7 Astronauts had!
Mt. Everest, eat that!
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iZen in space –
If an iPod plays in a vacuum, does it make a sound?
The Zune is way too heavy to be brought aboard the space station.
Geez…look at the size of the Nikon lens near the astronaut’s knee. It’s bigger than his thigh!
but see, he’s not using mac laptop. it’s winblows!