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Swede

(39,598 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2026, 09:14 AM Wednesday

This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA (ISS to Artemis) [View all]

How cool is that?

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!)

This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA
— JessÃ½ Potato (@markdownhandsup.bsky.social) 2026-04-08T08:54:43.063Z

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This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA (ISS to Artemis) [View all] Swede Wednesday OP

That's a pretty cool milestone. nt Nittersing Wednesday #1

I never had thought about it but I suspose I had assumed they could always communite riversedge Wednesday #2

I would have thought there would have been displacedvermoter Wednesday #3

I have to challenge this... lastlib Wednesday #4

Later that decade, Gemini VII and VI... Kid Berwyn Wednesday #6

Yeah, I mentioned that, but wasn't sure..... lastlib Wednesday #7

Good point about ship-to-ship vs ground stations 'n' satellites... Kid Berwyn Wednesday #9

I have vivid memory of the Apollo-Soyuz handshake! lastlib Wednesday #10

A NASA Rabbit Hole Kid Berwyn Wednesday #11

Oh, god, YES! lastlib Wednesday #13

this is the right answer RT Atlanta Wednesday #15

Low earth orbit vs space. Swede Wednesday #17

Plus, wouldn't every ship that docked with the ISS have communicated?? IrishAfricanAmerican Wednesday #18

Don't the ships docking with the ISS communicate as well? tinrobot Wednesday #5

That's what I was thinking too. Mysterian Wednesday #12

Spacecraft have certainly communicated with one another in space before now, but EarlG Wednesday #8

I don't think this was really a direct ship-to-ship communication. LudwigPastorius Wednesday #14

Hailing frequencies open! SocialDemocrat61 Wednesday #16