Fort Mill’s Pleasant Knoll Middle School celebrated Earth Day on Monday by radioing into space -- to the International Space Station, to be exact.
With help from the York County Amateur Radio Society, a local ham radio operators group, the school was selected to become a direct contact school which meant Pleasant Knoll students were part of only 1% of United States schools chosen to participate in the program.
The entire student body gathered in the gym to witness this historical event for the students. At exactly 12:10 p.m., contact was made by science teacher Allison Killowitz with International Space Station Astronaut Matthew Dominick. He is a Navy test pilot and astronaut and is on the ISS as part of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.
As the signal was beamed from a tower outside the gym to the International Space Station, everyone got an education into what life is like 250 miles above Earth while traveling at 17,400 mph.
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