Kids in space: a Melbourne primary school puts an astronaut in the hot seat

By John Elder
Updated June 10 2016 - 10:13am, first published May 23 2016 - 7:03pm
The audience watches on as Essex Heights Primary School students interview an astronaut on the International Space Station. Photo: Wayne Taylor
The audience watches on as Essex Heights Primary School students interview an astronaut on the International Space Station. Photo: Wayne Taylor

There is a famous scene from The Right Stuff, the movie about the first astronauts, where the entire world sits on the edge of its seat, waiting for word from John Glenn on his overheated re-entry to Earth, NASA control calling to him, time and again. Everybody waiting.

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