YouTube SpaceLab Lifts Off With Lenovo Aboard “Lenovo ThinkPad laptops have played a critical role aboard dozens of NASA space shuttle missions since 1995 and are currently used by astronauts in critical operations onboard the International Space Station.” Keith’s note: This is not exactly accurate. Lenovo completed its purchase of IBM’s laptop division – the original manufacturer of ThinkPads – in 2005. Only in the past year or so have […]

YouTube SpaceLab Lifts Off With Lenovo Aboard Keith’s note: NASA Signed a Space Act Agreement with Space Adventures – with the word “YouTube” in the title. Yet no one from YouTube (or its parent company Google) ever signed the SAA. Now, when you go the YouTube SpaceLab page you see NASA’s logo along with YouTube’s logo and Lenovo’s logo – yet neither company is mentioned in the body of the […]

Keith’s note: In the very near future NASA, Google, and computer manufacturer Lenovo are set to announce an interesting educational project. As I understand the gist of the effort from various sources, students will be asked to come up with ideas for experiments that can be performed on the ISS and submit a video via YouTube that describes their idea. Winners will be selected and the experiments described in the […]