For the first time, NASA’s Twitter followers will have the opportunity to directly talk live with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

NASA is inviting fifth through eighth grade students to participate in a waste limitation management and recycling design challenge.

Carrying Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev, as well as a spaceflight participant, this Soyuz TMA-16 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009, on its way to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

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