The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has changed the lives of fourth-grade students after their astronauts replied to space-related questions.

A group of fourth-graders had space-related questions, their teacher took a shot and tweeted the same in order to get a reply from NASA. She tagged the space agency as well as some famous astronauts on Twitter.

These fourth graders have some questions for you.@NASA @Space_Station @NASAEarth @NASA_Johnson @NASA_Astronauts @NASAKennedy @MarkRober @DestinSandlin @TheSpaceGal @neiltyson

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— Aimun (@bluemagicboxes) October 14, 2020

The letter with the questions got a reply from the NASA astronauts after over 2,000 people retweeted the post. Scientists and astronauts responded to their queries and invited the children to be their guests once the pandemic ends.

An American science communicator and the host of Xploration Outer Space, Emily Calandrelli, replied to the fourth-graders’ queries.

Alisha – All different types! Some popular rockets that you’ll see will use a fuel + an oxidizer. For example, something called RP-1 and then liquid oxygen. These are combined together and then *ignited* and burned to create a big (controlled) explosion that moves the rocket! 🚀

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— Emily Calandrelli (@TheSpaceGal) October 14, 2020

Haniyah -It’s definitely possible!! The same physics and chemistry that creates diamonds here on Earth (putting Carbon under super high heat/pressure) exists on planets like Jupiter, so some scientists hypothesize that it’s raining diamonds there! Wouldn’t it be fun to see that?!

— Emily Calandrelli (@TheSpaceGal) October 14, 2020

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield had also replied to the students.

Mahrukh – I flew in the Space Shuttle twice. You feel violently shaken, squished, super-focused, excited and lucky. https://www.bolnews.com/latest/2020/10/nasa-astronauts-replied-to-pakistani-fourth-graders-space-related-queries/amp/

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) October 14, 2020

Netizens, including the teacher, were overwhelmed by the responses. Moreover, DLR – German Aerospace Center — also responded to the questions

Thank you for your great questions! We have already received an answer to Haniyah’s question from @DLR_de planetary geologist Ulrich Köhler: “The „diamond rain“ is rather a theory, a model, based on the fact that Jupiter’s atmosphere and gas hull has plenty of carbon inside.”👇 https://www.bolnews.com/latest/2020/10/nasa-astronauts-replied-to-pakistani-fourth-graders-space-related-queries/amp/ pic.twitter.com/jcLB4kTr20

— DLR – English (@DLR_en) October 14, 2020

Many of the twitterites suggested Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister of Science and Technology to help other children to have their questions answered.