Not to geek out too much, but this transcript of Obama talking to the Commander of the International Space Station is pretty cool. The kid in me was pretty thrilled to hear that Commander Fincke say, “we go around the planet once every 90 minutes. It’s quite a thrill, and it is very fast, and we see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every day.”

Transcript after the jump.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.