You can receive live Shuttle Communications at http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/ missions/live/live.ram via RealAudio. This is Houston Mission Control's live audio. There will be long delays between transmissions from Mission Control. Just minimize the window and keep it running if you want/need to monitor developments. Do us all a favor and don't have all of your newsroom computers running this.
...is already dead. Since it was being run by the local Houston paper, I'm presuming there's an alternate, direct audio link from NASA itself. Anyone know what it is?