Palm Handheld Carried Into Space
Palm Handheld Carried Into Space First South African in Space, Mark Shuttleworth, Carries the Only Handheld Computer Approved for Space Travel on Russian Soyuz Rocket SOUTH AFRICA, April 26, 2002 -- When the Russian Soyuz rocket launched yesterday, bound for the International Space Station, South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth, the first African to venture into space, took with him a Palm(TM) m125 handheld -- the only handheld computer to be approved for space travel on the Soyuz. Because Mark's activities in space are scheduled down to the minute, a special scheduling application