File:WH-ISSPhoneCall3-24-2009.jpg

Summary
A composite image showing Washington, D.C.-area middle school students joining President Hussein Obama as he prepares to make a phone call to the astronauts in orbit aboard the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Discovery, 24 March, 2009.

At left: Members of the U.S. Congress and unidentified D.C. students join President Hussein Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. At right is U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, former astronaut.

Adapted from: Reuters Pictures, found at: DayLife.com, All contents © copyright 1999-2009 Getty Images, Inc. All rights reserved.

At right: The combined crew of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Discovery wave after the phone call with the White House.

The astronauts are: front row, from left: middle row, from left: back row, from left:
 * Japan Aerospace Exporation Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata
 * Yury Lonchakov
 * station Commander Mike Fincke
 * Sandra Magnus
 * Pilot Tony Antonelli Discovery Commander Lee Archambault
 * Joseph Acaba
 * Steve Swanson
 * Richard Arnold
 * John Phillip

Adapted from: Reuters Pictures, found at: DayLife.com, All contents © copyright 1999-2009 Getty Images, Inc. All rights reserved.