BUNKER HILL, Ind. (AP) _ Students at a northern Indiana elementary school have made a very long distance call to the International Space Station as it orbited the Earth over the Midwest.
On Thursday, hundreds of students and staff at Maconaquah Elementary School in Bunker Hill packed into the auditorium to hear Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui via HAM radio. Sixteen students were selected to ask Yui the question they had submitted to the school ahead of time.
The Kokomo Tribune reports that Yui told the students he's able to email family and friends while he's in space. He said the first thing he wants to do when he gets home is shower.
Yui joined the ISS Expedition 44/45 mission in July and will be aboard the International Space Station for five months.
