On March 24th, President Obama placed a phone call to the astronauts on the International Space Station and Friendship School students were there! Friendship Public Charter School has been a long-time parter with CEDC and we were excited to read that some middle school students from Friendship were invited to be present during the phone call.
Here's a short excerpt:
Flanked by curious middle-school children and several members of Congress at the White House, President Obama placed a congratulatory phone call to the astronauts who just installed new solar wings at the International Space Station.
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The students wanted to know whether the astronauts can play video games in space, how they exercise in the weightlessness of space, what the astronauts eat and whether they've found any life forms or new planets. Space shuttle astronaut John Phillips said he occasionally played a video game when he lived on the space station for six months in 2005.
Click the here to read the full article from the Washington Post.
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