Dear,Carol how many asurnots do you Know?

Cool. I love capri suns.( Ross wants to know a lot about NASA).

jonathan she is not a astronaut!

Wow actully one time i was watching a show and nasa had givin this charactor a vacum packed thankgiving dinner for 8 and it was smaller than a computer screen

Sanjana, I have been on a machine that lets you feel what it's like to dock the Shuttle with a satellite. The machine was moving and the satellite was not fastened to anything so it was moving and it was very hard to bring the two of them together. I was not able to complete my mission but my son was able to do it. I have not been in the plane that makes you feel like you are in space. They call the plane the Vomit Comet and I bet you can guess why. I'm afraid I might me one of the ones that vomits so I just don't want to fly in it.

Rachel, although there is little or no gravity in space, your center of gravity controls how you float or move through space. On Earth your center of gravity is right around where your stomach is. In space, when you push off to go floating toward the far wall, if your center of gravity is not near your stomach, you could end up floating away from the wall you intended to reach.

Patrick, I'm in charge of the paperwork. There are a lot of rules that have to be followed for the Space Shuttle to be safe. These rules have to be recorded. Then when they decided to change the rules or change something on the Space Shuttle, these changes have to be recorded and distributed so everyone knows what is going on. I'm in charge of making sure all this happens.

Ross, it's been so long since we went to the moon, it is hard to say how many days it would take. We do things much faster today, so my guess would be a couple of days (2 or 3).

Reana, when we are not on the Shuttle we are planning and training for the next flight. We have 3 Shuttles and each one has to be specially prepared for it's next flight. Also, the astronauts who will fly each flight have to prepare and train for the jobs they will do.

I used to work at Mission Control. During the mission we record anything that "goes wrong". If something doesn't happen like we thought it would, we record it so we can discuss it after the mission. During the mission I would update this list of Anomolies and take the list to each of the people working on Console in Mission Control.

Ross, it is too much fun to be at NASA. You get to meet Astronauts every day (I had lunch with 3 of them last Tuesday). Everyone is friendly and excited about putting people in space. Except when they don't agree about what is best for the Shuttle. Sometimes there are arguements but after everything is said, and everyone has a chance to think about everything that has been said, they all agree to the best way to do it. By the end of the meeting, we are all friends again.

Lilly, very few people have been inside a Space Shuttle. These vehicles are so complicatied, NASA does not want to take the chance that someone would accidentally break any part of the Shuttle. I have been under a Shuttle when they were stacking it (attaching the rockets to it) and have walked next to it when it was being rolled to the launch pad.

Tiana, blasting off into space is the worst part of the trip. You are laying on your back and are being smashed into your seat. It feels like an elephant is sitting on your chest and it seems to take forever to get into space. Actually it only takes a couple of minutes but when you have an elephant sitting on you, it seems to take an hour.

Jacob, my most favorite thing at work is watching a Space Shuttle blast off. I have seen 2 blast offs in person (I was at Florida, close to the launch pad). Both were awesome.

David, there are 3 Space Shuttles but they were not all built at the same time so they are different. There are a lot of things that are the same but there are differences. Like the ones we built later, we built with better computers.

Daryn, I have worked at NASA for over 20 years. Can't do something that long if it's not a lot of fun!

Noel, tethers are too important here at NASA. Loosing an astronaut is not an option, so we take our tether very seriously. We have NEVER had an astronaut float off and we never will. We did have an astronaut forget to tether his tool kit and it floated away. That was a very bad day. NASA doesn't want anything that should be tethered to go floating off into space and the astronaut who lost the tool kit got in a lot of trouble. I don't think he had to pay for the tool kit he lost.

Claudia, I am not an astronaut. I just get to work with them. It is very hard work to be considered for the astronaut program. All of the astronauts have spent many years in college and have many degrees. Every year hundreds apply to NASA to become an astronaut and less than 100 are chosen. I am a wife and mother and was not able to go to college for so many years. I help the astronauts get to space by making sure the paper gets to the right place.

Noel, yes the equipment does malfunction sometimes but we always have a back-up system that we can use.

Jacob, the control panel is big because there are so many controls. A lot of the training is about those controls. So by the time an astronaut sits down at the Space Shuttle control panel, he or she knows everything about every button, light, lever, and control in front of him or her.

Brian, the pool is mostly work. Being under water in your spacesuit is the closest thing to being in space. When the astronauts are in the pool, they are practicing what they will be doing during their space walk. After they have practiced, then when they do it again the people who are teaching them tell them a problem has occurred and watch to see how the astronaut will get around the pretend problem. This helps the astronaut know his job so well, that even if he has a problem when he is in space, he will be able to complete his task.

Caitlin, yes NASA gets interupted because of weather or a malfunction on the launch pad. And Shuttles are not the only space vehicle launched from Florida. There are other rockets that are launched and NASA has to wait its turn.

Sorry, Salvador.

Tiana, I've cleaned up a lot of vomit and NONE of it is famous. Even a famous astronaut does NOT have famous vomit.

Ross, I've never been to space camp but that's because I never want to blast off into space. I'm afraid if I can't fly in the Vomit Comet without throwing up, I'd probably throw up in space and I wouldn't want to do that to my fellow astronauts. I've talked to people who have gone to space camp and they loved it!

Noel, any job at NASA is a great job. We are all part of the team that puts the astronauts into space and brings them home safely. I would say, go for the top. Be an astronaut!

This was fun! Maybe we can do it again sometime.

Carol, you have helped us to be better readers, better writers, better scientists, and better thinkers! We thank you from the bottom of our Challenger hearts! (Our school is Scobee Elementary: named in honor of Dick Scobee, Commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger.)

Do you love working at NASA?

I just watched the APOLLO PROJECT on Brainpop.

Carol, the you for spending your time answering our questions about space.

yeah Carol that ws SOOOO NICE of YOU to wnser ALL of our questions

Carol,how do they make powder food?

I just watched a brainpo about sir isaac newton

Carol, thank you for some NASAgoods! :-)

Ha Ha I alredy read it!!!