Well, I hope they have a good person to sing the National Anthem, and not a caterwauler.
Isn’t there a long time delay to get to Mars? Will the American flag block the signal?
With hot wings and beers?
A simple feat.
You can reach the ISS using a 2 watt ham handie-talkie.
If you track the ISS with a high-gain dish you can use it as a reflector to communicate with other stations on the ground. It’s quite similar to radar.. you get the reflection back...
Line of sight is easy... even to places like the moon and mars.
“...Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko are within four weeks of the end of their yearlong mission...”
They will fall 24 days short of a full year in orbit. If I was them, I’d find some way to delay return until a FULL year in orbit has been accomplished. Still, it will have been quite a ride.
Why would an intelligent person who is “working” in space want to watch something as mundane as football? I’d suspect there would be better forms of entertainment aplenty on a space mission.
this is great.....BUT I live out in the middle of no where...and when we went digital signal for the TV.... I have not been able to watch a game unless I get a antenna turner or go up on my roof and move the antenna ...but they can watch it in space....I give up and no longer watch....sad