NASA Builds Interplanetary Internet, Controls LEGO Robot From Space

In the annals of geeky space experiments, it's going to be hard to top this one.

NASA and the European Space Agency announced Thursday that it had successfully tested a new kind of communications protocol -- the backbone of a future interplanetary Internet. And how had it tested it? By having the International Space Station commander remote-control a LEGO robot back on Earth.

"The experimental [Internet] we've tested from the space station may one day be used by humans on a spacecraft in orbit around Mars to operate robots on the surface, or from Earth using orbiting satellites as relay stations," said Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator for space communications and navig…
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