Space tourist Simoni talks to students in the USA and in his native Hungary
The International Space Station's 15th crew commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineers Oleg Kutov and Sunita Williams are currently taking command of the station from the 14th crew members, two of whom, Miguel Lopez-Alegria and Mikhail Tyurin, will return to Earth next Friday. "We are happy to be here" says Kotov in a video broadcast. "In the next six months we will do a good job."
Williams, who joined them in the middle of their stay on the station and will also continue with the current crew, says goodbye to them: they were like my parents, on the first space flight. They guided me and taught me what to do and how to work in space.
The new crew, along with the American space tourist of Hungarian origin Charles Simoni, and the members of the outgoing crew celebrated on Thursday, April 12, the 46th anniversary of the first space flight conducted by Yuri Gagarin, a date known in Russia as Cosmonaut Day.
Simoni spends his time on a number of projects, including replacing the hard disk in one of the computers on the space station, as well as having several conversations with high school students from the USA and Vestudnuts from Budapest.
These conversations as well as other details appear in a video log On the special website that Simoni set up to cover the event.
