BELLEVUE, Wis. (WBAY) – Students at McAuliffe Elementary School listened intently to a Zoom video name on Friday from house.

“I’ve always been curious about our place in the universe, and I think the idea that I get to do this as a job, get to perceive our existence from a different perspective than most people get the opportunity to do, has just been wonderful for me,” astronaut Mark Vande Hei mentioned.

Doing again flips from contained in the International Space Station, Vande Hei spent practically half-hour answering scholar questions starting from is the house meals good? to how does it really feel having the ability to float?

“You really don’t learn how to operate in space, on a space station, in particular the Zero G part. Until, we’re actually up here,” Vande Hei informed the the group of scholars from the Green Bay Area Public School District.

“It’s like a once-in-a-lifetime thing that you actually get to talk to someone in space, and they actually get to like respond to you,” McAuliffe fourth grader Caleb Nelson mentioned.

Friday’s dialog occurred on the thirty sixth anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger catastrophe that killed seven astronauts, together with teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe who the college is known as after.

“Before I was here, I didn’t really think much about space,” fifth grader Kara Green mentioned. “But now, now that I’ve actually seen an astronaut, I think it’s really really cool.”

Only a handful of colleges throughout the nation are picked by National Aeronautics and Space Administration annually for this uncommon alternative, and it occurred thanks largely to Vande Hei’s cousin who’s a trainer at McAuliffe.

“One boy just gave me a big hug and said, ‘thank you Mrs. McVane. I’ll never forget this. This is amazing,’ and I think most of them will have that feeling,” Michelle Vande Hei McVane mentioned.

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