CEJ #2

Astronauts Will Watch Super Bowl from Space

Malik, Tariq

Google News

2/2/13

Science

http://www.space.com/19611-super-bowl-astronauts-space-station.html

    The international space station's Expedition 34 team is made up of six men: two American astronauts, flight engineer Tom Marshburn and commander Kevin Ford, Russian cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin, Oleg Novitskiy, and Roman Romanenko, and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield.  Last Sunday, they all watched the Super Bowl from space!  
     NASA's mission control at the Johnson space station in Houston beamed the Super Bowl XLVII live to the international space station, so the astronauts could watch something (the TV options weren't too good up there).  "Yes, they are going to watch it this weekend," NASA spokesman Josh Byerly had emailed Space.com days earlier.
    I think that actually, it’s kind of a waste of energy to beam the Super Bowl XLVII all the way up to the international space station because it’s only for the Americans probably, because I don’t think Chris Hadfield, Evgeny Tarelkin, and Roman Romanenko needed to watch it because they’re Russian and Canadian.  Also, couldn’t somebody record it for them?
    On the other hand, it is pretty cool that we have the power and technology to do that though.  And a cool fact the article said was that the International Space Station was about the same length as a football stadium!  Maybe they played a game up there?