The summer before business school I worked in Brussels at the Belgian space institute, during which I learned about launching various objects into the upper atmosphere and beyond. The scientists traveled to South America to launch high altitude balloons to study the earth’s atmosphere; when the balloons eventually fell back to earth they would trek through the jungle to find them. It sounded like a fun adventure.
I was reminded of that summer when I learned that the European Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station will be using WS_FTP to securely transfer files between the space station and earth. Even though WS_FTP is used so many ways by so many people, I think it is particularly cool that it will be used for science in space.
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