This recording complement the recording of this event posted earlier by VA2VA. VA2VA's recording covers the last part of the event, and my recordings cover the first part of the event.

Col. Doug Wheelock answered the following questions in this recording:

1. What would I have to do to become an astronaut someday?
2. How many astronauts are on the Space Station at a time?
3. Where, and for how long, do you have to go to school to be an astronaut?
4. What qualities do Girl Guides and Girl Scouts have that would make them good astronauts?
5. If you are always floating around in the Space Station how do you keep from bumping into things when you are asleep?
6. How do you move from one place to another in the Space Station if you are floating and can't really walk?
7. Do you still have to wear shoes if all you do is float?
8. Do you get your own bedroom on the Space Station and if so how do you keep your personal things from floating into someone else's space?
9. Are the lights turned off in your sleeping space when you have to go to sleep?
10. How do you take out the garbage in space?
When I record, I leave the squelch off, and when I edited the recording, I deleted most of the squelch noise to reduce the size of the recording, so the "squelch tail" separates transmissions by Col. Wheelock.

Audio File: 

2010_Jul_16_1750_UTC_145_8_MHz.mp3