Published on June 26, 2017
Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 51 Commander Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Jack Fischer discussed life and research aboard the orbital laboratory during an in-flight educational event May 19 with students at the Space Dynamics Laboratory of Utah State University in North Logan, Utah. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined the event along with local and university officials. Whitson is the in the midst of a nine-and-a-half month mission on the complex, while Fischer is performing research during a four-and-a-half month mission. The two astronauts will return to Earth in early September for a landing in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in south central Kazakhstan.
