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| January 09, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 San Jose Mercury News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Julie Sevrens Lyons

Jan. 9--Their parents' generation got to watch Neil Armstrong take a giant leap for mankind 37 years ago onto the surface of the moon. But hundreds of Cupertino students may have one-upped their folks Monday when they actually made contact with a NASA astronaut on the International Space Station -- and peppered her with questions for nearly nine minutes.

The long-distance conversation, the culmination of more than two years of effort, took place at 9:36 a.m. sharp, as a ham radio crackled with static. "This is Dilworth Elementary School, do you copy?" operator Don Ferguson called again and again into his radio. Finally, a…

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