Mass. Students Chat Live With Astronaut Scott Kelly From Space

BOSTON (CBS) --  The coolness factor of having an entire conversation from the Museum of Science here on earth with an astronaut at the International Space Station was not lost with high school students.

"We can talk to people who are moving at like 17,000 miles per hour is space," one Winsor School student said.

Astronaut Scott Kelly took questions from students from nine schools across the state. Kelly has been on the space station since March, making him the American astronaut with the most time in space.

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Some students asked profound questions like, "Do you believe there's life outside our solar system?"

Other questions were basic, but important: "What's it like to use the bathroom in space?"

"A lot of things are made more challenging up here," Kelly responded.

Kelly, who showed some of his kids his acrobatics, says he sometimes misses gravity.

"It looks like it's fun -- which it is -- it makes a lot of things more difficult to do," Kelly said. "Everything's got to be Velcro-ed to the wall or secured somewhere, to the ceiling, to the floor."

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Kelly will remain in space for another four months. He says he's not homesick, but says he does miss some things, like other people.

"Even though the people up here are great, there's not many of us," he said.

WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Karen Twomey reports