NASA Astronaut Discusses Life in Space with his Alma Mater

Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 51 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA discussed his research and other work on the orbital laboratory during an in-flight educational event May 10 with students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fischer, who is in the first month of a four-and-a-half month mission on the complex, graduated from MIT in 1998 with a Master of Science degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering.