Published on May 10, 2017
During a pair of interviews on June 24 with the Univision Network and ESPN’s “SportsCenter, astronauts aboard the International Space Station talked about watching World Cup soccer matches while in orbit, and discussed the upcoming June 26 match between the U.S. and Germany. Mission control in Houston is uplinking the televised matches to the crew members through the station’s high-data rate Ku-band communications system.
