Md. Astronaut Speaks To Students At Science Center
BALTIMORE (WJZ)--Some Baltimore City students were treated to a visit that's out of this world today. Astronaut Terry Virts met up with the children at the Maryland Science Center to show them what life is like on the International Space Station.
As WJZ's Gigi Barnett explains, his mission to the International Space Station ended back in June.
Six months aboard the ISS and Astronaut Terry Virts has the breathtaking pictures to prove it.
He shared those snapshots with hundreds of Baltimore City students at the Maryland Science Center.
"I liked how I could see the earth. The lights were shining and I could see the lightning," said one student.
"It was really that they could drink and do things. Cause I would never think that they could drink and do things in space like that," said Cheyanne Dannenfelser.
Virts' main mission in space was doing a science project, a task some of these students may be familiar with.
The NASA astronaut also fielded questions from the students about life aboard the ISS.
Virts says, "These kids asked amazing questions. These are some smart kids and they got to important issues like, 'Are their meteors in space?''"
On this morning on WJZ's "Coffee With" Virts took some questions from Marty Bass and Gigi Barnett, as he explained why it was important for him to visit city students.
"I was born here. This is where I'm from and in some ways a rough year this year. And I said I want to go back and talk with the kids," Virts said.
And maybe inspire some to choose a career in science, technology, engineering and math.
"There are so many things you can do with that background and they lead to careers and a lifetime of achievement and a meaningful life," said Verts.
One of the most shocking things Virts told the students: there are no showers in space.
It costs $10,000 dollars a pound to ship items to space and water is just too expensive to send there. No shower for 200 days!
Virts says the next step for him is taking a vacation. He'll start training for a new flight a few months after that
