Queen Elizabeth visited NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Her visit came after U.S. space agency and British National Space Centre discussed the opportunities of their collaboration in future.
Queen Elizabeth met the participants of International Space Station expedition and Fyodor Yurchikhin, the commander of the expedition. He said, that it is a great idea to have such an international project, which will give a chance to astronauts and scientists of different nations to work together.
Yurchikhin said, that they are now putting a range of experiments to see how long it is possible to live in space and to build a craft that will take them back to Moon and Mars.
NASA visit was one of the last visits Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip planned for six day U.S. arrival. The also planned to participate in 400th anniversary of the English settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, to participate in tree planting ceremony in the Goddard center's Rocket Park.
The last day of visit Queen Elizabeth will host a dinner at British Embassy in Washington for President Bush and the first lady Laura Bush.
By Ruzan Harutyunyan for HULIQ
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