Astronaut Don Pettit Creates the First Mailing Address in Space

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5/22/12

            For us addresses are very common on Earth, but what about in space. This article is about Astronaut Don Pettit. He supposedly created an address in the darkness of space. This takes place in the International Space Station. This happened in the middle of the month May. This was created to give the International Space Station an address, to be communicated with. The zip code was 51.603.

            I think this address was a waste of time, and this time could be used to research environmental problems, such as global warming. There is no reason to make an address of a place that is not going to receive anything from the Earth soon. Because of the global disasters, and weather patterns, research about this topic would be very beneficial. Also this zip code is only accurate until 99 space stations is in work in the orbit, considering Don's nomenclature. Lastly now because we are in the hi-tech era, addresses would not be of much us. Now we would use e-mail or our cell-phones.

"Postage rates, however, are likely going to be ASTRONOMICAL." Words from the passage

P.S.) Ha Ha  

Article Link: http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-05/astronaut-don-pettit-creates-first-mailing-address-space