Primary school teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara Morgan has been chatting from space to kids in her home state of Idaho, America.
Press Packer Corey was picked to take part in the special satellite chat and tells us all about it in his report.
"My science teacher had to pick someone to take part in the space talk so she looked at our behaviour and grades to decide who should get to go and I was the last one standing.
I joined 17 other kids from schools all over Idaho on a two-day trip to the state's Discovery Centre for the link with Barbara Morgan and the crew of the Endeavour shuttle.
We spent the first day practising our questions because the link was going to be broadcast on live TV in Idaho and we didn't want to mess up.
Before the link, we were told we might not all get to ask our questions as they only had a small time frame to fit us all in.
I was 16th on the list and was just about to ask my question when the link cut out.
Luckily, one of the directors spoke to Nasa and persuaded them to let us have another couple of minutes.
Barbara Morgan used to be a primary school teacher in Idaho before becoming an astronaut in 1998.
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I asked Barbara Morgan: "What was the hardest thing you had to accomplish to prepare for this mission?"
She said you had to prepare for living in that situation for quite a while and make friends with all the other people on the crew or else it would be miserable.
The astronauts took it in turns to answer all our questions and demonstrate how things work in space.
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One kid asked how fast a baseball goes in space so they threw one to show us.
They didn't throw it too hard, so it wouldn't break anything, but they could spin it really fast in one position.
They also showed us how they drink water in space - they have to eat it using a spoon!
They squeeze the liquid out of a special container and as it floats up they put a spoon over the top and then put it in their mouth. It was really weird.
One of the things that surprised me about the space station was that it didn't have very many windows.
Barbara Morgan said it was really hard to operate the robotic arm they use outside the space station because there are nearly no windows. Instead, there are cameras outside that feed pictures to TV screens inside.
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I've always liked space and the stars and constellations and talking to the space crew was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
It'd be pretty cool to work for Nasa but I think I'd like to be in space instead of working in an office on the ground."
Corey, 12, Idaho, America
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