Terry Virts is an astronaut that went to the International Space Station. He was at the station for about six mouths and took some amazing photos for the space station and ran a lot a science experiments. Once he goy back to Earth he wrote a book called The Astronaut’s Guide To Leaving The Planet. He did a book talk and talk to us about what it was like preparing to go yo the space station then what it was like actually there.
Before when he was a kid he had always dreamed of being a astronaut from a very young age he would even build model rockets. When he was in his teens he still wanted to be an astronaut so he followed what other astronauts had done and he joined the Air Force.
Then he showed us how he trained to be an astronaut. He showed us a model space station that is in a swimming pool so that they could practice fixing things on the outside of the ship.
Next he showed us the photos that he took from this room on the bottom of the space station. He said that is were he spent most of his time when he was at the station. One of the most interesting parts about what he told us was how he slept. He said that he brought a sleeping bag and you would tie your sleeping bad to the wall and you would just float around when you slept. It was really awesome to have an astronaut come to our school and he was really inspiring.