Published on October 28, 2017
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 53 Flight Engineer Mark Vande Hei of NASA fielded questions about life and work on the orbital outpost during an in-flight educational event Sept. 18 with students from the Pine River-Backus schools in Pine River, Minnesota. Vande Hei is in the second week of a five and a half month mission on the station, having launched to the complex Sept. 13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
