Another Houston company, NanoRacks, will help NASA launch the iPhone to the International Space Station, while the Twitter Mac client has been upgraded with a simple interface and powerful functions. The phones launched to the International Space Station will not be carried back to Earth by the Atlantis. Instead, the Russian Soyuz spacecraft will bring these iPhones back to Earth. (Zhang Nan)
Xinlang Technology News, early on June 14 Beijing time, Google and Apple attended the Senate hearing to defend their privacy policies. A Houston-based company called Odyssey Space Research has already developed an iPhone app used for research on the International Space Station. NASA will launch one or two iPhones to the International Space Station later this year during the last flight mission of the space shuttle Atlantis.
Odyssey Space Research CEO Brian Rishikof said that the iPhone 4 is already good enough to replace more expensive equipment used for space research. The company's app can help teachers, scientists, and space enthusiasts recreate experiments conducted on the International Space Station.