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Astronaut Tim Peake Impressed with St Albans Pupils After ISS Contact:

Posted: 17 Jan 2016 04:37 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/35988


Down-to-earth astronaut Tim Peake not only helped St Albans pupils make
history by chatting live via amateur radio while aboard the International
Space Station (ISS) - he also phoned the secondary school's headteacher to
praise their efforts. Space history was made at Sandringham School last
Friday (8), when its students became the first in the UK to speak live with
the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut. And then he stunned its
headteacher Alan Gray by later phoning him while orbiting earth, hundreds
of kilometres away, to praise his pupils. In front of visiting television
crews, unfazed pupils quizzed Tim - after contacting him on amateur radio -
on a range of scientific questions, in line with the experiments he is
conducting while on the station.