Canadian astronaut gets a message from students

Canada.com reports that Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, VA3CSA got a message of inspiration beamed to him from Earth last weekend as he orbited on the International Space Station.

The message was sent thanks to hundreds of University of Calgary students armed with LED panels, who gathered on a property just south of the city on Saturday night.

With only a six-minute window as the space station crossed the sky, the students used the light panels to choreograph a Morse code message to the astronaut who is a graduate of a University of Calgary engineering school.

"It worked out better than I ever could have imagined; it worked out perfectly," said Liam Nelson, a second-year mechanical student. "I'm confident that he at least saw the lights."

The message beamed to the sky was the word "dream," sent by Morse code and spelled out.

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