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Reach out and touch an astronaut.


What do some students from Marshall, Michigan Marshall is a city located in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Battle Creek, Michigan Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 7,459. It is the county seat of Calhoun County6.  (below), have in common with the folks at NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
NASA
 in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Independent U.S.
? They all want to find out as much as possible about life in space. But while NASA launches astronauts into orbit on multibillion-dollar missions, the Marshall kids simply telephoned astronaut Jim Voss (right) in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation).
Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the
. Grab this chance to listen in on their party line.

Do you have questions of your own for NASA's astronauts? If so, why not call them up--in space! This year, three shuttle missions will be equipped with amateur (ham) radios. The astronauts themselves will select a few lucky classrooms back on Earth to chat with.

Even if the astronauts don't pick your class, you can still use a ham radio See ham.  to listen in on all kinds of shuttle-to-Earth communications.
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Publication:Science World
Article Type:Interview
Date:Jan 15, 1993
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