Schoolkids in Limerick make history with live video call to astronaut on International Space Station

"If I got to space I'd figure out how to go to Mars and live there."

Schoolkids in Limerick make history with live video call to astronaut on International Space Station
Tue, 24 Jan, 2017 - 17:59

By David Raleigh

Hundreds of primary school children and their teachers made space history today by taking part in Ireland's "first live video-call with a European astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS)".

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