Nasa announced Tuesday that it has agreed an arrangement with Yahoo for the search operator to make official online video from the 12-day Discovery shuttle space mission. The streams will be available in Windows Media format to millions of Internet users at http://www.nasa.gov/ and on Yahoo's own site - they will also promote video from the space mission, scheduled for launch on July 13, across the entire network.

In a separate deal, Akamai Technologies Inc. will stream the same video via RealPlayer but that will only be available from the NASA site. NASA said the agreements enable it to provide Internet access to the feeds at no cost to taxpayers. This is the first shuttle mission since Columbia disintegrated over Texas on February 1, 2003 when the entire crew of 7 died.

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