Odyssey Space Research An artist's conception shows one of
Odyssey Space Research's iPhones floating in the International
Space Station's Tranquility module, with a view of Earth from
the Cupola observation deck. The last space shuttle mission will
be the first mission to send iPhones into orbit — but if this
experiment works out the way its developers hope, you could be
seeing a lot more such devices on the final frontier in the
years to come. The two Apple iPhone 4's certified for launch to
the International Space Station on the shuttle Atlantis next
month won't being used for phone calls. Astronauts on the space
station already have a pretty reliable Internet phone link for
that, so they don't have to worry whether AT&T or Verizon
provides better reception from space. In fact, the phone
function on these iPhones has been disabled. "My joke is that
the roaming charges would be astronomical," Brian Rishikof, the
chief executive officer for Houston-based Odyssey Space
Research, told me today. Odyssey has load