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Twitting Astronaut is Coming Home

Soichi Noguchi is a Japanese astronaut, and he has become quite the internet phenomenon thanks to his totally out of this world Tweets during his NASA mission. The man has been acclaimed worldwide for the amazing images that he took from outer space, with images of famous cities, major landmarks and even the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been recently announced that Soichi has finished his mission and is on the way back to Earth by the end of the week –just in time to buy the newly launched iPad released last Friday.

Known on Twitter as “Astro_Soichi”, Noguchi has become well known for his amusing one-liners and very eye-catching photographs. Of course, the big bonus with Noguchi’s images is that the perspective and view from outer space provides an all new look at the once commonly seen vistas of Mount Fuji, the Red Sea and others.

The Japanese astronaut has been able to go online straight from outer space thanks to a new form of technology developed by NASA. Originally, astronauts had to send their messages to mission control where it would be posted on Twitter by NASA personnel. With the new technology, astronauts could now post content directly online without any need for a third party to help out.

The new technology is called Crew Support LAN and is probably the most impressive form of wireless internet technology. Basically, the internet access piggybacks on the existing lines of communication from the space station to mission control. While the technology is impressive, they still have limited access to the internet –videoconferencing is reported to be available for limited periods only.

Thanks to Twitter’s new file hosting service, many Twitter users are now able to upload images and post links straight from their Tweets. The service has been long demanded by many users –especially those who love to upload images straight from mobile phones. At the rate that users have been uploading, it has been estimated that Twitpic will soon overtake the volume of images hosted on sites such as Flickr and Photobucket.