{"id":19366,"date":"2016-06-01T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/astronauts-do-backflips-talk-mars-and-social-media-in-facebook-live-chat-from-space-with-mark-zuckerberg\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T11:14:16","slug":"astronauts-do-backflips-talk-mars-and-social-media-in-facebook-live-chat-from-space-with-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/astronauts-do-backflips-talk-mars-and-social-media-in-facebook-live-chat-from-space-with-mark-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts do backflips, talk Mars and social media in Facebook Live chat from space with Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252794\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-252794 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckastronauts-630x328.png\" alt=\"Facebook Live space station\" width=\"630\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckastronauts-630x328.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckastronauts-768x399.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckastronauts-1240x645.png 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckastronauts.png 1771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-252794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, right, speaks via Facebook Live with astronauts, from left, Tim Kopra, Jeff Williams and Tim Peake. (Via Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are plenty of billionaires racing to get us to space in one way or another, but Mark Zuckerberg sort of beat them to the punch Wednesday when he participated in the first-ever Facebook Live from space.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg linked up for a Q&amp;A with astronauts Tim Kopra, Tim Peake and Jeff Williams, who are all currently living and working aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re building products to try to connect everyone in the world, connecting folks who are out in space is about as extreme and cool as it gets,\u201d the Facebook CEO said to open the conversation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fzuck%2Fvideos%2F10102866910495181%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the Live chat&nbsp;included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How the body reacts to zero gravity.<\/li>\n<li>What\u2019s being worked on to enable future travel to Mars.<\/li>\n<li>Whether food and drinks taste different in space.<\/li>\n<li>How the astronauts communicate in different languages.<\/li>\n<li>What the astronauts do for fun on the station.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_252807\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252807\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-252807\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckflips-630x319.png\" alt=\"Facebook Live astronauts\" width=\"630\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckflips-630x319.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckflips-768x389.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckflips-1240x628.png 1240w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/zuckflips.png 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-252807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The International Space Station astronauts do some backflips after Mark Zuckerberg asked what they do for fun up there. (Via Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Zuckerberg also mentioned that he knew the astronauts used social media to communicate, and he asked whether they had any feedback for him on how he could make the process better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial media is a really nice way to reach your friends and family from up here,\u201d Williams said.&nbsp;He added that the Internet speed isn\u2019t quite what it is back on Earth, but it allows them to keep in touch. \u201cOne thing about life up here, is it\u2019s so unique, and to be able to share it with other people, especially a huge audience, is a tremendous benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video had 2&nbsp;million views so far on Wednesday morning. If the astronauts had laughed through the entire event while wearing Chewbacca masks, no doubt the&nbsp;number would be bit higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, right, speaks via Facebook Live with astronauts, from left, Tim Kopra, Jeff Williams and Tim Peake. (Via Facebook) There are plenty of billionaires racing to get us to space in one way or another, but Mark Zuckerberg sort of beat them to the punch Wednesday when he participated in the first-ever Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1668,3611,5552,717,5553,21],"class_list":["post-19366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-astronauts","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-live","tag-international-space-station","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-space"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}