STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Students from Mississippi and Louisiana gathered at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center Thursday will place a call to astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The K-12 students will be able to ask Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Ron Garan, Mike Fossum and Satoshi Furukawa questions related to mass and weight to enhance their understanding of scientific principles, physics and space. Students from Bay Waveland Middle School in Bay St. Louis, Vancleave Middle School in Vancleave and Hancock North Central Elementary in Kiln, all in Mississippi, and Our Lady of Prompt Succor in Chalmette, La., will participate. The call will include a video link with the astronauts that will be broadcast live on NASA Television. (Source: NASA, 08/15/11)
