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Now four months into a six-month tour of duty aboard the International
Space Station, astronaut Mike Fincke, KE5AIT, says he's developed a
craving for fried chicken. Fincke spoke August 16 via Amateur Radio with
youngsters gathered at the Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation
Museum in Bloomington, Illinois. The direct 2-meter contact between W9AML
on Earth and NA1SS in space was arranged by the Amateur Radio on the
International Space Station (ARISS) program. Fincke told the students that
although he misses his family--he has a baby daughter whom he has not yet
seen--and his home, there are some foods that he misses as well.

"Lately I've really been missing some fried chicken, and I don't know why,
because I don't eat it very often on the planet," Fincke said. "But, boy,
what I wouldn't give for a nice box of fried chicken at this time." The
astronauts' diet consists primarily of reconstituted freeze-dried foods,
Fincke explained in another answer, and Fincke said he's especially fond
of the vegetables.

Responding to a question about experiments under way aboard the ISS,
Fincke mentioned that one involved how to use a soldering iron in space.
Although Fincke did not elaborate in his answer during the ARISS contact,
the Science@NASA Web site this week reported a fascinating soldering
phenomenon that Fincke encountered: As the temperature increased, a
droplet of rosin clinging to the outside of a molten blob of solder began
to spin around--seemingly orbiting the solder globule. (The Science@NASA
site includes a video of the phenomenon

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