Andreas Mogensen, former Imperial School London engineering scholar and present commander of the Worldwide House Station (ISS), is talking stay from the ISS to college students at New Scientist Live as we speak, taking their questions on his mission there and what life is like as an astronaut.
The livestream is beginning at 12.50 BST.
The ISS is the biggest modular area station in low Earth orbit, staying about 400 kilometres above Earth’s floor, and it has been repeatedly crewed since November 2000.
European House Company astronaut Mogensen’s first spacewalk is deliberate for Thursday 12 October, when he and NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara will enterprise exterior the ISS to put in a brand new digicam and put together an experiment for a future improve.
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