Just in:
At the same time, while the US of A is betting on the Internet as a communication medium for space (wow,
where on Earth did they get this idea?), ESA is catching up on its revolutionary introduction of...television...feels very '60,
this article (May 2007!) about ESA's television services. Push instead of pull...from the looks of it, the Internet doesn't really seem to trickle down through the ESA bureaucracy...Television as a participatory medium: space exploration brought to you by ESA ;)