Astronaut Talks Life in Space with San Bruno Students via Ham Radio:

An astronaut flew over San Bruno on Wednesday and revealed to the 800 earthlings below that he wears socks to work, eats lasagna and spent part of this week fixing the space station toilet. And the Internet doesn’t work any better in near-zero gravity than it does on Earth, spaceman Scott Tingle said. The 11-minute shortwave radio conversation with Tingle — orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station — was the biggest thing to hit Parkside Intermediate School in some time. That’s because classes were canceled while Tingle spoke from 250 miles overhead on his special radio hookup. Students and teachers crammed into the school’s gym, where local ham radio clubs had set up their equipment.

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