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Alaska astronaut to chat with area students

Alaska astronaut to chat with area students

Alaska astronaut Bill Oefelein will have a unique conversation with home Wednesday: Students in Kenai will ask the space shuttle pilot questions, and hell answer them – live from space.

This conversation is brief, only 10 minutes, and precise, starting at 10:12 a.m. Its for a limited audience: Only Alaska students have a scheduled videoconference with the space shuttle Discovery.

The conversation will be part ultra-long-distance phone call and part videoconference. While Kenai students at the Challenger Learning Center will be the only ones who can interact live with Oefelein, students in schools from Dillingham to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to the Fairbanks area are expected to listen and watch.

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