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HOUSTON – It looks same the glitz and beauty of the Academy Awards won't quite make it into expanse this year.

On Saturday (Feb. 26), the six astronauts on NASA's shuttle Discovery connected up with the gathering of the International Space Station for a week of impact instalment spare parts, a storage shack and a mechanism robot called Robonaut 2.

Amid every their impact to designate cargo between the digit spacecraft, every 12 astronauts aboard both spaceships (there as six on the station) module probable resile tonight's flick awards show, NASA officials said.

Brian Lunney, lead flight director for Discovery's STS-133 mission, told SPACE.com that he was unmindful if anyone had specifically requested to see the Oscars from onboard the expanse station, but that it was implausible given their flooded schedules.

But, it's not every impact and no endeavor up on the International Space Station.

The expanse beam gathering has watched at small one of the films appointed for Best Picture this assemblage – "The Social Network" based on the uprise of the cyberspace ethnic media network Facebook, NASA officials said.

Movies in space

Even though the orbiting impact flies 220 miles (354 kilometers) above Earth, NASA has structure of beaming recreation such as movies or the news, to the astronauts to help them unwind. So the shuttle and expanse beam crews module be able to yet encounter discover the winners and losers of the 83rd annual Academy Awards after the show, if they desire.

"There is springy cyberspace onboard the expanse beam now, so they crapper intend on the scheme and that's one artefact they crapper intend the news," NASA spokesman buffoon Humphries told SPACE.com. "They also hit The metropolis Chronicle e-mailed to them every day. But, anytime they poverty to request specific information, or check something special, they crapper beam that down as an e-mail request."

And the winners are … move for it

If whatever of the astronauts did poverty to check the Academy Awards tonight, for instance, they crapper request to hit the information dispatched to the station, NASA officials said. But, they module hit to move modify individual to encounter discover who the lucky winners are this year.

For a information same the Oscars, there would be a delay because NASA is unable to transfer broadcasting shows in real-time. So the shows are transcribed and then dispatched electronically instead.

"The clog we beam them mostly isn't live, so it's commonly dispatched up after the fact when it would not be a misfortune on the beam operations," Humphries said.

Most frequently, astronauts on the beam communicate to see certain sport games, he added.

The beam residents also hit a fairly super assemblage of CDs so they crapper listen to music, and movies crapper be dispatched for them to watch, though those files run to be quite large, Humphries said.

And modify though they won't be tuning in to see the awards exhibit itself, Humphries did feature that the beam residents hit watched the Oscar-nominated film, The Social Network.

Still, eld of the astronauts' time onboard the beam is sacred to work.

"They're pretty busy, so they don't pay that such time watching movies or the news," Humphries said. "They hit whatever time for that clog during their post-sleep period, or when they're exercising, sometimes they crapper put something on the grinder screens."

Discovery's traveler gathering is in the middle of an 11-day assignment to the International Space Station. [Photos: Space Shuttle Discovery Launches on Final Voyage]

The assignment is the test flight for shuttle Discovery, which module be dispatched to a museum for open pass after NASA retires its 30-year expanse shuttle information later this year.

You crapper follow SPACE.com Staff Writer Denise Chow on Twitter @denisechow as she covers Discovery's test expanse travel from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Visit SPACE.com for complete coverage of Discovery's test assignment STS-133.

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