Thinkpads & The Space Station

[JohnD.]

Hi Guys/Girls,

I just finished watching the Dragon spacecraft connect with the Space Station robotic arm. Which reminded me, I believe that the Space Station uses Thinkpads on board. Does anyone know which ones are on the station?

When I was watching Nasa TV, in the mission control room, I saw a logo that was at the bottom right corner, at a diagonal of a laptop. I am guessing that was a ThinkPad. I also saw a silver circle on the back of a screen of a laptop, maybe a Dell.

John

[rkawakami]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad#Use_in_space
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shutt ... uters.html
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=38577
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=57209
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66584

I bought this A31p off of eBay a couple of months ago and have been using it at work for over a month. It may or may not have flown in space. My understanding is that the "CLASS III NOT FOR FLIGHT" stickers are put on equipment that's been decommissioned.

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[Czechnology]

Yamato Labs: #1 Laptop PC in the Universe
Yamato Labs: Lenovo ThinkPads Arrive at International Space Station
David Hill: ThinkPads, Astronauts, and Robots

(is this a good place to say that i really miss the space shuttles?)

[Czechnology]

Here one quite recent - trackpoint gets famous in space! http://youtu.be/bGoJ66WNapE?hd=1&t=3m27s Looks like T61p if I read it correctly.

[Radioguy]

There were some 760's that made it up there on shuttles too. I'm not which versions, though.

[ilakast]

Some more ThinkPads in this recent video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=KaOC9danxNo

[Czechnology]

Here you see ThinkPad really "in control"

http://youtu.be/IZHw4UKFiHQ

http://youtu.be/K7NvsxcoDKo

[emeraldgirl08]

From the previous videos it looks like it is a T61p that Chris Hadfield works with.

Here the T61p and Chris are getting serious work done

http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo