One Long Distance Call

President Obama speaks to the crew members aboard space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station gathered in the station's Harmony module on March 24, 2009. The President was joined by members of Congress and students.

(public domain)

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News & Politics

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• NASA
• shuttle
• space
• station
• astronaut
• crew
• Discovery
• phone
• call
• president
• obama

[localmonkey]

His father was born in Kenya you dipshit, his moms from Kansas, they had obama in Hawaii, there you go!

God bless my President Obama

[sebastian2508]

great video!! I wish this could be translated to many languages for everyone all over the world, specially for kids, to make them see that there aren't only bad news and that study, hard work, and cooperation between different nations, is the key to really survive our technological adolescence.

I hope one day science would take it's deserved place in human life, above politics and religion (most of the time, causes of evil)

Good to see Obama is paying more attention to science rather than war

[sbergman27]

I'm not sure why this would be characterized as being particularly long distance. A call between two positions on the Earth can never be further than 12800km, though it could stretch as far as 20,000km overland. ISS orbits 400km up in LEO. So depending upon where ISS was in its orbit, it could have been anywhere between 400 km (250mi) and 13200km (8200mi) away. A reminder that humans are really quite restricted spatially. And we can't even get that far without thumbing a lift with the Russians.

[gunasegar1000]

My message to the beloved indians. Please be exicited to become our country as the unbegger country and do not speak over insted try to execute which will be develop and predict ideas to our country. watch this video fro an example and try to implemented the same.

[arthurwmacalpine]

I'm a conservative and I'm not a fan of President Obama, but it's heartwarming to see something that we can all be proud of as Americans. Good job Mr. President, and God Bless to all of the brave astronauts who personify the American spirit of exploration and discovery.

[polyrhythmic1]

They should just admit that we're not alone in the Universe. It's obvious to anyone with a brain. The evidence is stacked.

[goma3]

"16 sunrises and 16 sunsets everyday"

Now that's something.

[silvercorex]

Absolutely brilliant.

Now these are people I can salute.

[clairebreedlove26]

hes cuttte