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Before Submitting Your Question

Northwest Missouri State University students and Academy students are invited to submit questions for the astronauts about the International Space Station. The following guidelines should be followed:

Each question should contain the name of the crewmember it is directed to and the name of the student asking the question.
- Example:
  For Clay Anderson: What experiments are you working on right now, and how do you think they will affect the people down on Earth? (Joseph Markson)
The questions should be free of typographical and grammatical errors
The questions should be realistic enough for the crewmembers to answer logically.
Each question should consist of one topic only. If there is a second, related half to the question, it should be combined with the first half to form one sentence. For example, instead of asking “What is your favorite food?” “Have you eaten it in space?” Combine the questions to say, “What is your favorite food and have you ever eaten it in space?” This ensures that you will ask both questions at once and not pause between them, causing audio overlap.

The microgravity environment provides unique learning and teaching opportunities. Crewmembers discuss and may demonstrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics concepts in ways that are difficult to duplicate on Earth.

Commander Mike Fincke and Sandy Magnus will be the astronauts you will question. They will be in either the Harmony Module or the Destiny Module of the International Space Station. You may ask them to demonstrate something. You may not ask them to move the cameras as they are fixed in position.

To submit a question, click the appropriate student classification below and then complete the online form. There will be one academy student chosen to ask a question and one non-academy student chosen. After filling out the question, click submit.

Questions are due by noon on the last day of Final exams, Dec. 12.

Questions will be screened by a faculty committee and the winner will be chosen based on a combination of this screening and drawing by lot. The faculty screening the questions will not know the name of the student or the department they are from. Faculty will be screening questions on the basis of how interesting they are to the general public, not on the basis of how scientific they are.

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