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| WCYB-TV News video of the ISS Downlink event. |
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| NASA Associate Administrator for Education Lelnad Melvin and private space explorer Anousheh Ansari assistant Wise County student pose question to orbiting ISS Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Donald Petitt. Photo: Tim Cox |
On Thursday, thousands [nearly 5,000] of Southwest Virginia schoolchildren took a trip to space.
Well, sort of.
In a $40,000 event paid for by a host of local sponsors, children bused from seven different localities had the chance to speak with astronauts on the International Space Station via video downlink for about 20 minutes Thursday morning [while hearing and meeting private astronaut Anousheh Ansari and NASA astronaut Leland Melvin and Robonaut-2 (video).
More from The Bristol Herald Courier and WJHL-TV (with video) along with University of Virginia's College at Wise announcement of the success and The Kingsport Times-News WCYB-TV and NASA Langley Researcher News media reports.
More from The Bristol Herald Courier and WJHL-TV (with video) along with University of Virginia's College at Wise announcement of the success and The Kingsport Times-News WCYB-TV and NASA Langley Researcher News media reports.
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