NASA Offers Web, Mobile Links to Follow Space Station and Mission Control

June 21, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 12-210

NASA OFFERS WEB, MOBILE LINKS TO FOLLOW SPACE STATION AND MISSION CONTROL

WASHINGTON -- NASA is using the Internet and smartphones to provide
the public with a new inside look at what happens aboard the
International Space Station (ISS) and in the Mission Control Center
at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Log onto the agency's Space
Station Live! web page or download the companion ISSLive! mobile
application to get up-to-the-minute information.

Groundbreaking research and technology development work is going on
every day in the microgravity environment of space, and Space Station
Live! allows users to see what the expedition astronauts do minute by
minute. Streaming data from the space station lets the public see the
latest information on temperatures, communications and power
generation. Students and teachers can use the data to solve classroom
problems in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or to
tour the space station and mission control operator consoles through
virtual 3-D view models.

Space Station Live! includes a web experience and free mobile ISSLive!
app for smart phones and tablet computers accessible on NASA's
website. The app also is available through the Google Play and iTunes
app stores.

Special features of the Space Station Live! web and mobile app
experience include:
-- live streaming data from various space station systems
-- live streaming data from actual crew and science timelines with
social media links
-- descriptions and educational material that describe how the space
station works
-- educational lessons using the live content
-- 3-D virtual mission control
-- 3-D virtual space station using live streaming data to correctly
position the sun, Earth, moon and the station's solar arrays
-- 3-D model of the space station with labels and colored by the
international partner contributions to its assembly
-- links to NASA's five international partner space agencies' mission
information.

To use Space Station Live!, visit:

http://spacestationlive.nasa.gov

To download ISSLive! and other NASA mobile apps, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect/apps.html

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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