Try to stay with me on this one. FCC specialists want mobile phone users on the ground to be able to send SMS messages to the crew of the International Space Station. To ask them about the weather. On other planets. I can see some scientific purpose for this, as the ISS crew will have a better vantage point to talk about weather movements and like on other planets with earth-bound scientists, but you just know this is going to get clogged up with fifty thousand, ‘OMG WTF MARS WEATHER LOL INTERNET?’ messages from loney astronomy students.
SMS Alerts From Outer Space [Textually]
