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From: karn@jupiter (Phil R. Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
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Date: 29 Jun 89 23:03:04 GMT
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Reply-To: karn@jupiter.bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn)
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>Actually the real challange is to get those silly shuttle control
>computers on the internet.  Columbia.NASA.gov anyone?  They could
>even run rrn to keep the astronauts from getting bored during
>countdowns!  8-)

You think you're joking, right? This is actually not so unlikely. There
is at least one "ham in space" operation scheduled for an upcoming
Shuttle mission where astronaut/astronomer Ron Parise, WA4SIR, will
carry an amateur packet radio station with him. It is entirely possible
(though I haven't actually proposed it) that he could operate TCP/IP
from space -- after all, they do have GRID computers that look like PCs
on the inside, and the KA9Q code will run just fine on them. The longer
things slide in the shuttle mission schedules, the easier it'll be to do
this sort of stuff as the necessary hardware becomes more and more
widespread.

The fun part would be doing the IP redirects as the shuttle moves from
one ground station gateway to the next...

Phil