"Chris_Gaming" wrote in
:

I live in Birmingham, Alabama; which is in north central Alabama. I
have a simple question. Sitting here at home in my front yard, is
there anyway for me to listen to the communications between Ground
Control and the Shuttle and/or the Space Station?

Sure. You don't need an antenna....(c;

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/index.html

If you want to hear the shuttle comms without the narration, Houston
Chronicle newspaper has a feed, direct:
http://www.chron.com/content/interac.../live/live.ram
It'll run great in dialup, but the TV coverage from Akamai is fantastic on
broadband at only 150Kbps to Realvideo in color. During flight, they both
run 24/7 until the Shuttle has become old news or lands, we hope safely in
one piece this time....(c;

--
Larry