NASA’s moon laser just blew your home Internet out of the water

In the nation's capital, the fastest residential Internet connection money can buy tops out at 75 Mbps. That's pretty zippy. But it doesn't compare to the 622 Mbps monster pipe that NASA just successfully tested over a distance of 239,000 miles. Unfortunately, to take advantage of those speeds, you'd have to be downloading data from the moon. That's because NASA's system consists of a laser that's pointed at Earth's natural satellite -- or more specifically, at a spacecraft orbiting the moon called LADEE. Why a laser? NASA says the radio spectrum it's traditionally relied on to transmit signals is getting increasingly overloaded with traffic.