A project in South Africa, Project Masiluleke, put an HIV awareness message in the unused space of certain text messages.
VOA: standard.2010.02.24
Eisenhower's messageof peace to the world transmitted from space was touted as a victory in the space race after the Soviet Union launched a satellite the year before.
Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.