Apple Takes Over Space
08.16.07 - 03:00pm
The iPod may rule the MP3 market here on earth buy why stop there? Apple is obviously way too ambitious to just rule the earth - space is the new frontier, and the iPod is flying into this frontier riding along with every astronaut on the space shuttle Endevour.
Apple first offered the players to the NASA astronauts two years ago when Andy Thomas flew on STS-114 and carried a bulky CD player with 20 CD’s. “Beethoven, Bach and the Beatles. The three Bs,” he said at a press conference.
Apple immediately called to offer their iPods to replace the out-of-date CD players but the iPods had to be certified before going into flight which took a years time.
Astronaut Tracy Caldwell told ABC news her iPod is loaded. “I am bringing up lots of stuff. I have lots of favorite artists, Gwen Stefani — in fact she went to Cal State Fullerton, the same college I went to — Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, I have a number of Christian bands like Barlow Girls, and Watermark and Casting Crowns.”
