Voa education report - Teacher in Space Answers Questions From Students

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is the VOA Special English Education Report. SOUND: "Good , Discovery Center ---- good afternoon. Were happy to be with you. This is Al Drew, Clay Anderson, Dave and I'm Barb Morgan. And we are ready for first question. Welcome aboard the International Space Station." That teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan, speaking from more than three hundred kilometers above the Earth. CHILDREN: "Hello from Idaho!" And were the students she was greeting in the northwestern of Idaho. They gathered at the Discovery Center in on Tuesday to ask the astronauts questions by video . The astronauts already knew what the questions would be. student asked what stars look like from space. Basically answer was that the space shuttle and the space are kept brightly lit, so it is difficult to a lot of stars. BARBARA MORGAN: "In fact, one to think about that when were on the International Station and all the lights are on when we outside, it's very much like trying to look at stars when youre in Boise. You can see some, then if you go up high in the mountains, to McCall, and you have all the lights out, what it will be like once we undock from [ ] station and we can turn all our shuttle lights , and also for the station folks they can turn their lights out." Barbara Morgan taught elementary school in , Idaho, before she trained for space. She and six astronauts arrived Friday on the shuttle Endeavour to bring and new equipment to the international station. Barbara Morgan fifty-five years old. She taught for many years before became an astronaut. QUESTION: "Hi, I'm Sarah Blum. How being a teacher relate with being an astronaut on mission?" BARBARA MORGAN: "Well, astronauts and teachers actually do same things. We explore, we discover and we share. the great thing about being a teacher is you to do that with students. And the great thing being an astronaut is you get to do it space. And those are absolutely wonderful jobs." Barbara Morgan prepared for a shuttle flight more than twenty years . She trained in case NASA needed a substitute for McAuliffe, its choice to become the first teacher in . Then, in nineteen eighty-six-, Christa McAuliffe died with the crew when the shuttle exploded shortly after launch. After disaster, NASA officials barred other civilians from shuttle flights. in nineteen ninety-eight-, they created a new position for to become fully trained astronauts. Barbara Morgan is NASA's "educator astronaut" launched into orbit. One of her first was to operate Endeavour's robotic arm to inspect the for any launch-related damage. Cameras showed a small area by a piece of protective foam that fell off fuel tank. NASA officials say the damage is not safety threat but they are deciding what to do it. And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, by Nancy Steinbach. For a link to NASA educational , go to voaspecialenglishcom.. I'm Mario Ritter.

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