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College Students Contact Space Station With Self-Built Radio System

by Donald Melanson on February 4, 2009 at 02:18 PM

While putting a call in to the International Space Station and chatting up an astronaut for a full ten minutes would likely be more than enough to satisfy most science classes, a group of students from Humber College in Toronto decided to go one big step further and do so with a radio system that they designed and built themselves. According to the school, that makes it the first time that's ever been done by students at the college level, which provided some well-deserved bragging rights for the students and their instructor, who said that they're "playing way, way above their league."

Be sure to hit up the link below for a video of the big moment and, of course, the complete NASA control room-esque geek out.

Tags: college, humber college, HumberCollege, international space station, InternationalSpaceStation, iss, radio, science, space, space station, SpaceStation

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