NASA's First-Ever Google+ Hangout With Astronauts From ISS

First Posted: Feb 24, 2013 02:24 PM EST
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All the space enthusiast were able have a face to face chat with the astronauts. Thanks to the first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station hosted by NASA on 22 Feb 2013 from 10.30 a.m EDT to 11.30 a.m EDT.

This event gave the NASA's social media followers an excellent chance to connect with the astronauts on ground and those living and working aboard the laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth.

The live online video conference allowed 10 people to chat face to face, thereby allowing thousands to tune in and watch the conservation live on Google+ or YouTube.

Prior to the Hangout NASA's social media followers were allowed to submit question. And it was during the event that several video questions were selected which was answered by the station crew and astronauts on ground. Those questions which were unique and original were selected for the chat. Apart from this NASA picked the real time questions submitted by several fans on Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

Expedition 34 commander Kevin Ford and flight engineers Chris Hadfield and Tom Marshburn were answering to the online questions. Apart from this they also spoke about their experience in space.  

"The whole point of having a space station is to have some place in space where people can take their ideas," Ford was quoted in CS Monitor. "We have a huge power supply up here. We have a lot of rack space, and we have a lot of scientists on the ground with a lot of ideas of things to do in space."

Reports according to CS Monitor state that the chat session with the space station was for just 20 minutes. But on the ground NASA astronauts continued answering the questions for another 40 minutes.

The various questions asked was how weightlessness affects blood flow of astronauts, how ISS protects its crew members from harmful radiations, reports Fast Company.

Live conservation is available on You Tube.

Built in 1998 ISS is a research laboratory orbiting 250 miles above Earth. It is a joint effort of NASA, the Japanese JAXA, European ESA, Russian Federal Space Agency and the Canadian CSA. Currently on board is the six member crew of Expedition 34.  

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