I forget to mention that the International Space Station called Salluit last week. The elementary school was chosen by NASA for a phone call from space. It was a very big event and the community was very proud. We all went to the school at 8 in the morning and waited while mission control in California called and got everything set up. There were a couple of NASA type people from Ottawa there choreographing everything including showing a couple of videos ahead of time, sound checks etc.
The children had obviously been preparing for a long time and had decorated the entire school with various space related crafts and projects.
I think almost everyone from the village was in attendance.
Contact occurred around nine and 15 children had been chosen to ask their prepared questions. It was really cool and the astronaut gave us a live feed tour of the space station - floating about the entire time.
One interesting fact:It would take 2 minutes and 17 seconds to fly from Salluit to Montreal in the space station, that is how fast it is travelling.
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