The children of 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th class spoke for an hour with engineer and former NASA astronaut, Dan Tani this afternoon. Dan told us all about his exciting 16 year career at NASA, his two space missions and six space walks. He was very generous with his time & was more than happy to answer all of our 21 questions. It was wonderful to have had the opportunity to speak with Dan & learn so many interesting facts about living and working in space.
Did you know that:
- Astronauts use Greenwich Mean Time when in space?
- You can see lightning from space?
-Space shuttles regularly get hit by micro meteoroids?
-It's possible to see rivers from space and also mountains when there's snow on them?
-When an astronaut returns to earth, it takes approximately a week to adjust to gravity again?
-Training for space included spending a week in an underwater lab in the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you know that:
- Astronauts use Greenwich Mean Time when in space?
- You can see lightning from space?
-Space shuttles regularly get hit by micro meteoroids?
-It's possible to see rivers from space and also mountains when there's snow on them?
-When an astronaut returns to earth, it takes approximately a week to adjust to gravity again?
-Training for space included spending a week in an underwater lab in the Atlantic Ocean?
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