THOMAS HARDEMAN, TAMPA, FLORIDA: Hello. My name is Thomas Hardeman and I'm from Tampa, Florida, and my question is: Is there any public access to the recordings or transmissions from Houston to the astronauts in space?</s>MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There are all kinds of ways to listen in on the air-to-ground communications between mission control in Houston and an orbiting space shuttle. And basically, the way to do that is to find out where NASA television is broadcast, because whenever a shuttle mission is under way, and all throughout the course of the international space station mission, for that matter, those air-to-ground communications are carried on what is called NASA television. It's a private satellite feed which is operated by NASA.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's a nice day to go do some flying. What do you think?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're looking forward to watching. It should be quiet a view.</s>O'BRIEN: Some cable systems have it. Some satellite dish operators have it as well. But it's also all over the World Wide Web. Use your browser to search for NASA TV and you'll find the various places that stream it. One of the places that does it on a routine basis is cnn.com. So we invite you to listen in of those missions. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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