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The radio transmission crackled for a second, paused, and crackled again before a voice broke through: “This is NA1SS reading you loud and clear.”
Jerico Dzicek’s jaw dropped as she turned to her fellow members of the Vail Vaqueros 4-H Club’s Ham Radio Project and smiled in amazement. The voice on the other end of the radio connection belonged to NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who chatted with the students as he worked aboard the International Space Station 240 miles above the Earth’s surface.
With only a 10-minute window to speak with Lindgren before the space station passed out of range, Jerico, 14, quickly took the ham radio microphone and asked her first question: “What would you do if you damaged your space suit when you were out in the field? Over.”….
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