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See how everything floats in zero-g?
Food… spoons… me :)
My own school, which is now a gymnasium, is in Noginsk near Moscow. I still have many friends there.
Just before the mission I visited Noginsk, and I went to the local education department. “I’m a cosmonaut,” I said. “Soon I’m going into space. Let’s do a communication session with schoolchildren from Noginsk when I’m in orbit.” In the department they at first took it… how to put it… with no optimism: “A spaceman? Go on talking! Cosmonauts like you are all around here!”
Of course later they changed their mind. The mayor launched a contest, and 400 pupils participated! Ten of them were chosen, and we had an amateur radio transmission with them. Kids had so many questions – how we live in orbit, what we eat, how we wash ourselves, how we do sports… the headmaster of my school Vladimir Nikolaevich was also there.
Frankly speaking, I liked talking to the kids. They were really interested in everything connected with space!
Via Russian space agency Roscosmos
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Dear readers!
Just bound to tell you, all of you have done so well to solve the Egypt enigma. Those were pyramids indeed.
In general, I regularly try to read your comments Roskosmos Press Service sends to me. It’s a pure pleasure! It’s great our readers have such a sense of humor.
You are asking many questions and, once again, I apologize for not being able to answer them all.
One question stuck to my memory though – from a dentist: “What do the spacemen do if a tooth starts aching?” It seemed to me our readers would be interested to know this.
First of all, the cosmonauts go through a complete dental check up before the flight. I mean before flying, we have all our teeth fixed and all cavities, even minute, eliminated.
Nevertheless, we are taught what to do if a tooth begins to ache. Obviously, we have no dental drilling machine here. But we do have a set of medications and tools you can use to put a provisional filling, to make an anaesthetic injection and even remove the tooth, if things become worse.
This does not concern the teeth only. As a matter of fact, we can perform small operations. We even have an ultrasonic scanning device here.
Here is my new riddle. I am sure it will be much more difficult to solve than the previous one: What is this?
Via Russian space agency Roscosmos
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29 December, 2009, 18:11
Hello Maksim, hope all well on ISS. Thank you for the time spent to support ARISS programs. We had 3 ARISS contacts October 2 with Nicole Stott, October 20 with Frank De Winne and December 14 with Jeffrey Williams... a record hi with involved many many people and students from schools.
Good work and Happy New Year to the Crew.
Claudio IK1SLD
29 December, 2009, 08:33
Excellent to see such a good use of amateur radio. I myself was priviliged to speak personally by amateur radio with Cosmonaut Haigneré on board Mir space station, and from the National Space Centre in Leicester we had an ARISS contact with an earlier expedition to the ISS.
Keep up the contacts, Max,we greatly appreciate them here on planet Earth!
andy, G0SFJ