Astronauts will answer 20 questions of students at Boise State University from the International Space Station on Tuesday. The educational event is part of the Space Symposium event at the university. NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson will interact with the Boise State Space Broncos, a team of students who have been collaborating with NASA.

The group has participated in various projects of NASA throughout the semester and bow, they are all set to participate in this live question and answer session.

Leigh Ann Dufurrena, the Digital Communications Specialist at Boise State, has described this event as a rare opportunity for students to get insight into space science.

"Whether that's NASA research, NASA collaborations, projects and internships that students can work on such as MicroGravity University, there are so many different opportunities that students can partake of here on campus and even abroad", said Dufurrena.

The event will begin at 9am on Tuesday. Dufurrena said that the symposium will showcase the strong bond between University and NASA. On addition to the Q&A session, symposium space and science teachers from Boise State will feature a talk.

NASA has said that improvement in technologies will soon have astronauts enjoying fresh food on the International Space Station. The experiment is named as Veg-01, intended to expand in-orbit food production. The plant growth chamber will be transported by the Dragon capsule on the SpaceX-3 resupply mission to the ISS.

NASA's Veg-01 experiment will focus on in-orbit function and performance of a new expandable plant growth facility called veggie and its plant 'pillows'. Researchers will endeavor to grow and develop lettuce seedlings in the spaceflight environment.

NASA's Vegetable Production System (Veggie) page has revealed that Veggie is a deployable growth unit capable of producing salad-type crops to provide astronauts with a palatable, nutritious, and safe source of fresh food.