10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5, 4, 3.2. 1. It's May 15th. I'm Bethany Van Delft, and this is no ordinary episode of the 10 News. This is the 10 News Gets Extra.

In today's episode, we're sharing our full interview with Terry Verz, a former NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station.

We had so much to talk about and great questions sent in from our listeners.

But first, let's go to one of our tenors and get the lowdown on what NASA stands for and one of his favorite things about space.

My name is Fox. I'm in the eighth grade at Neurod School, Los Angeles, California.

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

One of my favorite things to do with space is how SpaceX can reuse the Falcon 9, creating a more sustainable future for space flight.

There is so much cool science and technology that's come from the space program.

Let's hear from Commander Terry Vert about what it's like to be an astronaut.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Yeah, it's great to be with you guys.

Did you always know, like, your whole life that you wanted to be an astronaut?

When I was in kindergarten, the first book I ever read was one of those cardboard books with like one line per page.

And it was about Apollo.

So it was about the moon program.

And it was the coolest book.

I can still remember it, you know, what it looked like.

And I was hooked.

So it's like two questions.

But what do you have to study?

And what do you have to be really, really good at to become an astronaut?

So there's different ways in NASA to be an astronaut.

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