Video Baby Monitor Picks Up Video From NASA

An elementary school science teacher in Chicago doesn't have to turn on the news for an update on NASA's space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.

Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger's baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the space shuttle Atlantis. The other still lets her keep an eye on her baby.

"Whoever has a baby monitor knows what you'll usually see", Meilinger says. "No one would ever expect this".

"It's not coming straight from the shuttle", NASA spokeswoman Brandi Dean said. "People here think this is very interesting and you don't hear of it often � if at all."

Meilinger silenced disbelieving co-workers by bringing in a video of the monitor to show her class.

"I've been addicted to it and keep waiting to see what's next," Meilinger says.

Summer Infant, the monitor's manufacturer, is investigating what could be causing the transmission, communications director Cindy Barlow said. She said she's never heard of anything similar happening.

"Not even close", she says. "Gotta love technology".

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