Nasa Space Mission

Nasa Space Mission
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Read today: An elementary school science teacher in a Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor. Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere. "It's not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often - if at all." Summer Infant, the monitor's manufacturer, is investigating what could be causing the transmission, communications director Cindy Barlow said. She said she's never heard of anything similar happening. "Not even close," she said. "Gotta love technology."

Photo: Astronaut Joe Tanner works to make the P3/P4 truss operational during his extravehicular excursion from the International Space Station in this view from NASA TV, September 12, 2006. Xinhua / Reuters.