IN SPACE/RUSSIA: RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS HOOK UP THE INTERNET FOR THE MIR SPACE STATION'S FIRST ONLINE INTERVIEW

Record ID: 646359

  • Title: IN SPACE/RUSSIA: RUSSIAN COSMONAUTS HOOK UP THE INTERNET FOR THE MIR SPACE STATION'S FIRST ONLINE INTERVIEW
  • Date: 21st August 1998
  • Summary: KOROLYOV, RUSSIA 1. SLV EXTERIOR OF RUSSIAN MISSION CONTROL 0.05 2. SV/MCU YURI SEMYONOV, THE CHIEF DESIGNER OF MIR, SITS DOWN AT COMPUTER/ GREETS INTERNET USERS (2 SHOTS) 0.21 3. SV/CU MISSION CONTROL/ MIR WEBSITE WITH LIST OF QUESTIONS TO COSMONAUTS (2 SHOTS) 0.28 4. DEPUTY MISSION CONTROL CHIEF SERGEI KRIKALYOV SAYING I AM GOING TO FLY THE NEW INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND I HOPE WE WILL HAVE MORE RECEIVE AND TRANSMIT CAPABILITY TO ALLOW US TO USE THE INERNET IN REAL TIME ONLINE (ENGLISH) 5. LV MISSION CONTROL 0.47 IN SPACE 6. SV COSMONAUT SERGEI AVDEYEV SAYING THE INTERNET IS NOT JUST A NEWSPAPER, IT IS A NEWSPAPER FOR MILLIONS, THERE ARE MILLIONS OF USERS. WHETHER IT (THE INTERVIEW) HAPPENS AGAIN DEPENDS ON A LOT OF FACTORS. WE WOULD DO IT AGAIN WITH PLEASURE (RUSSIAN) 0.59 KOROLYOV, RUSSIA 7. CU MIR INTERNET SITE (3 SHOTS) 1.18 IN SPACE 8. SV FLIGHT ENGINEER NIKOLAI BUDARIN SAYING UNFORTUNATELY AT THE MOMENT WE DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET FROM HERE AND MAYBE THAT IS EVEN FOR THE BETTER. BECAUSE THE INTERNET IS A OCEAN OF INFORMATION, WHERE YOU CAN ENTER, GET LOST, DROWN AND NOT RETURN. MAYBE THEY WILL HAVE IT ON THE NEXT STATION, THE NEXT GENERATION OF COSMONAUTS WILL WORK WITH THE INTERNET. BUT WE GET BY AT THE MOMENT WITH AN AMATEUR RADIO (RUSSIAN) 1.47 KOROLYOV, RUSSIA 9. MCU MISSION CONTROL CHIEF VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV 1.50 10. TV/LV TECHNICIAN AT CONSOLE/ WIDE OF MISSION CONTROL (2 SHOTS) 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th September 1998 13:00
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  • Location: IN SPACE AND KOROLYOV, RUSSIA
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  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6R2DJOWSAGMP9IYIKMFCBGUG0
  • Story Text: Russian cosmonauts have hooked up the Internet for the Mir space station's first ever online interview.

    Space enthusiasts from around the world on Thursday (August 20) had the opportunity to zap questions to Mir by E-mail and see the answers relayed on the Internet.

    Mir, which goes out of service next year, does not actually have direct access to the Internet yet, so the cosmonauts replied to a printed list of questions posted on the web.

    The near-virtual news conference was hosted from Russian mission control by Yuri Semyonov, the chief designer of Mir.

    He was joined by several top Russian space officials, including Sergei Krikalyov, a deputy misson control chief and Russia's cosmonaut for the new Alpha international space station.


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