This year NASA will send Amazon Alexa on a mission into space to begin testing the ways it could use ambient intelligence
Amazon and Lockheed Martin, a NASA contractor, announced that Amazon Alexa would be a part of NASA's Artemis I space mission. Alexa will be used on Orion, a spacecraft of NASA, as part of the Callisto payload, which will be inserted in the spacecraft.
NASA will also give Alexa access to its Deep Space Network, which will enable Alexa to get all sorts of information from Earth, like news briefings and sports scores. This feature will allow astronauts to stay informed about what is going on in the world while in space, allowing them to feel more connected to home. According to Amazon, Alexa's voice interactions will make the crew's life easier and more efficient.
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