An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor. Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby."Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see," Meilinger said. "No one would ever expect this."Live video of the mission is available on NASA's Web site, so it's possible the monitor is picking up a signal from somewhere."It's not coming straight from the shuttle," NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often — if at all."

Meilinger silenced disbelieving co-workers by bringing in a video of the monitor to show her class on Tuesday, her students' last day of school. At home, 3-month-old Jack and 2-year-old Rachel don't quite understand what their parents are watching."I've been addicted to it and keep waiting to see what's next," Meilinger said.

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multimillion dollar devices & even a baby monitor can interfer.
that's what i call worthless.

this is the same reason the flight attendant says, "iPods could interfer with the airplane."

expensive crap. xo

If i turn on my old walkie talkie from way back i can hear phone conversations in my appartment building.

grrr, As a ham radio operator, I know this is classified as skip....propgation of existing radio frequencies...signal was picked up on the ground sheiding of the coax...maybe through cable system that was not properly grounded....

LOL! Imagine hijacking a plane by just a click and wheel slide of an iPod.

I was just wondering if maybe what she's seeing is identical to what's being broadcast as "live" on the website. I think it would be very interesting indeed if she is seeing video that is not edited. It would be neat to do a side by side comparison.