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In related space matters: the ISS has a webcam!

Last week I saw a hurricane from space. Yesterday, they were struggling to get Win2000 to connect to a LAN.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx

They used to have SSTV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSTV) as well. I never successfully captured one but I have from other SSTV stations. It's a very cool feeling to receive pictures from someone hundreds of miles away over "nothing" (radio). I can only imagine the feeling receiving photos directly from the ISS.

Wait, what is that a webcam of? I see a computer monitor, nothing spacey at all, and hearing Russian radio chatter.

Ah, yeah, right now it's switched to a map showing the position. Sadface. But the last few days it's been showing an interior view, and before that mainly exterior shots. You get a mission overlay a fair bit, too, which is a shame - I assume this is when video signal is lost.

The Russian radio chatter is ground talking to astronauts in Russian. There's also English radio chatter, too.

There are spacey things going on right now! Someone is floating through the air!!

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