Astronaut Jeff Williams had barely settled into his "home away from home" on the international space station when he gave his pastor a quick phone call.
Launched via a Russian Soyuz rocket March 29, Williams and cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov boarded the space station a couple of days later. The two plan to live and work there for six months as the two-man crew for Expedition 13.
Williams, a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Houston, called Pastor John Kieschnick the morning of April 2, a Sunday, hoping to catch him before the 8 a.m. worship service.
Kieschnick, in prayer with the congregation's team of "prayer partners," a ritual he practices every Sunday morning, could feel his cell phone vibrating in his pocket, he told Reporter in a telephone interview. When he finished his prayer and checked the voice mail, he was amazed to hear Williams' voice -- crystal clear from space, some 250 miles above the earth!
Astronaut boards space station, 'phones home'
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