Last week, just hours after the launch, Mrs. Baruch, Teaching Assistant during our reading class, shared some video clips and news with our class. We watched the space shuttle blast off at 4,000 miles per hour. We also watched astronauts greeting each other at the space station. We had been reading books about space and astronauts, and seeing this event was perfectly timed!
From Mrs. Baruch:
The Soyuz Expedition 37/38 launched with three astronauts aboard. Two Russians and one American docked earlier today with the ISS, where three astronauts have already been on a mission there. The flight was 6 hours at a speed of nearly 4,000 mph. These astronauts will be up there for several months doing many science experiments, which should interest us and our students.
Then, on Nov. 7 the Olympic Torch will be sent to the ISS with other docking astronauts. On Nov. 9, the crew who went there today will do a space walk with the Olympic Torch (unlit of course)!! It will be sent back on Nov. 12 to earth where the torch relay will take it to the highest mountain in Europe and to the bottom of a sea, among other places, until the opening of the Winter Olympics in Russia in February.