Astronaut Gets Cell Link to Hear Daughter’s Birth
From Times Wire Reports
The birth of Tarali Paulina Fincke was another first for NASA -- she was born while her father was in outer space.
The proud papa, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke, is serving a six-month hitch aboard the International Space Station but was linked by a high-bandwidth satellite to his wife Renita’s cellphone during the delivery at a Houston-area hospital.
Fincke gave his Russian crewmate, Gennady Padalka, a pink bubble gum cigar. Tarali is the Finckes’ second child.
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