STATION COMMANDER DISCUSSES LIFE IN SPACE WITH STUDENTS Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA answered pre-recorded questions from students representing the Society for Science & the Public in Washington, D.C. during an in-flight educational event Oct. 2. Cassidy, who discussed his long-duration mission and research on the station during the event, is in the final weeks of his six-and-a-half month sojourn, heading for a landing Oct. 22 in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan.