CLEVELAND — Students at Saint Ambrose Catholic School in Brunswick, Ohio had the chance to have their questions about space exploration answered in a live video stream with astronauts aboard NASA’s International Space Station.

Two of those astronauts, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, have been stuck at the station since they left for a one-week mission in June.

“It was just amazing that they could actually, like, see us from Earth when they’re all the way on the International Space Station,” said one sixth-grade student named Elle. “And it was like crazy that I saw myself up there.”

To prepare for the event, students pre-recorded their questions and sent them over for the astronauts to view during the event, getting the chance to learn the answers to things like, “What discoveries have you made in space? How do you communicate with people on earth? How does your body react to a sudden change in gravity?”

“They squeezed up the pineapple juice, and it was just a bubble, and it didn’t spread out like it normally does down here,” said Kylie, another sixth-grade student. “So, I found that fascinating, and how they could see Earth’s structures from all the way up there.”

Head of Schools Principal Lisa Cinadr, a self-proclaimed “space geek” said she applied to this opportunity through NASA, hoping to show students what they can achieve.

“We’re really giving them the opportunity to dig in and find out what are those gifts and talents because look what could happen for them,” Cinadr said. “They could be going. I anticipate there will be a student or more going to Mars or the moon.”

Fourth graders Bobby and Ethan said after learning from the astronauts this week, they’d take up any opportunity to visit space.

“You could do, like, a million backflips in a row,” Ethan said. “Zero gravity seems awesome. I’d love to be in space one day, maybe in a rocket. I’d love to try it.”