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Obama to Astronauts: "Glad [You're] Using the Hands-Free Phone."

by Peter Mychalcewycz on March 25, 2009 at 03:16 PM



President Obama took some time out of his hectic schedule yesterday to speak with a higher authority.

Flanked by congressmen and local area children, Obama spoke for the first time with the astronauts inhabiting the International Space Station, issuing compliments and cracking jokes. The President was upbeat throughout the conversation, joking with the astronauts that, since the space station orbits Earth at over 7,000 miles per hour, he was "glad that [they were] using the hands-free phone."

We can only imagine that Obama greeted this novel interaction as a welcome diversion from his heavier burdens, of which there are many these days! [From: Daily Mail]

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Tags: government, international space station, InternationalSpaceStation, nasa, obama, politics, space

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