Space Age Meets Internet Age

Before complaining about slow uploads the next time you're online, consider that transmissions from Mars can take 20 minutes. And that is with information packets moving at light speed. NASA developed a network modeled on the Internet, but more disruption-tolerant; a requirement to make it viable in space. Recently, they transmitted the first images between earth and a spacecraft 20 million miles away. Will complex missions involving multiple landed, mobile, and orbiting spacecraft be easier to support through the use of an Interplanetary Internet?

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