NASA Releases Video Tour of the ISS

[koit]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 5&from=rss

Nice video tour of ISS, but guess what laptops were flying around.

[Radioguy]

I remember them having 760s on the Space Shuttle years agao. I always watched the coverage to see my laptop in space.

[Marin85]

It´s interesting how electronics survive the transport from earth to space... I guess these guys don´t have Lenovo APS installed

[basketb]

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 5&from=rss

Nice video tour of ISS, but guess what laptops were flying around.

I'm not really interested in watching 35 min of video to find out. So are these A31ps as reported in previous threads?

[Marin85]

I watched all the four videos and I believe there were many different ThinkPads there including some T43, T42, T60 (but I´m not really very good at ThinkPad model guessing )

[ajkula66]

I got to like 4.5 minutes and was content seeing 4-5 A31p machines...good enough for me...

[nesabelle]

Is Nasa and the government covering up information on its sudden sense of urgency for space colonization? I have noticed an extreme sense of urgency on the part of Nasa and the government to build up the space program and the possibility of colonizing the moon and Mars. Is this due to a projected global crisis that is being kept secret, requiring an immediate sense of urgency for an irreversible series of events that could threaten the existence of this planet?

[RealBlackStuff]

They better hurry in that case, the world (i.e. planet Earth) is supposed to end on December 21, 2012.

[Sandstorm83]

That sounds like the plot of that 2012 movie with John Cusack

Back on topic, anybody know what certifications those laptops had to pass to go up there? I heard that they need to withstand different forms of radiation that we dont get down here on Earth.