An American astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday spoke directly with students of a school for the first time in the country of the area's history.
NASA astronaut Edward Michael Fincke `Mike, who is married to a daughter of India's north of the state of Assam has answered questions from 14 students of Assam Jatiya Vidyalalya at a program organized by the Friends of Assam and Seven Sisters (FASS), an organization of non-Assamese, in coordination with NASA.
The floor of the amateur radio station on the ISS (ARISS) north of California coordinated speak and the public, consists of more than a thousand people, has told Fincke to the demands of students' phone connected to Earth Station has established a link with the spacecraft.
Students had a new insight into the world of space with Fincke informing them that they normally sleep inside the spaceship and set their own schedules based on a cycle of 24 hours from ten to six.
Asked about the difference in the environment inside and outside the spaceship, Fincke said he was extremely hostile and cold outside but inside it is as comfortable as we can with the temperature at 24 degrees Celsius.
The quality of air inside the spacecraft is maintained by oxygen throughout made carbon dioxide is recycled, said Fincke, who is also the commander of the expedition "Mission 18" of the ISS .
Members of the ship to eat normal food like sausages and burgers, but they are mostly packaged food, prepared on the ground, but we do not heat these sometimes, "he said.
"Water on the spacecraft is used as the return of the planet, but we recycle water and urine," Fincke replied to a student of the interview on the water aboard the spaceship .
He and two of his colleagues inside the spacecraft, however, can not take bath due to zero gravity, and they did tip in addition to wear absorbent.
They are also lucky to see sunrises and 16 rounds during the 24 hours that the spacecraft complete rotation 19 during this period, each cycle to take 90 minutes.
Seasonal changes as well as man-made and natural structure of the earth are also visible from aboard the ship.
Currently, "we are witnessing the winter in the northern hemisphere and summer in the southern hemisphere and we can also observe large objects, like the pyramids and the Great Wall of China," said astronaut.
Fincke and his colleagues relax on the spaceship with books and watching movies and exercising two hours daily on bicycles and carpets.
Fincke, who is learning Assamese flash in space by means of cards, it was asked, "apuni Asomiya parenaki Kobo" (can you speak Assamese) and he responded with aplomb, "I ALOP Kobo published "(I can speak a little), winning strong applause from the audience.
Fincke is married to Renita Saikia, who also works at NASA, and his parents left for the United States decades ago. (*)
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