Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, pronounced "whooie") and NASA have teamed up for a cool science trick this week. Two scientists, one on the International Space Station and one in the deep-ocean submersible Alvin above the East Pacific Rise, will chat science, trade dried fruit recipes, and talk about how lonely they are.

"He is two miles under water; she is 200 miles up in the atmosphere. He works in a small, confined space, looking out onto a vast, unpopulated expanse--and so does she. He is out of the reach of sunlight, buried in a blanket of constant darkness, she sees the Sun rise 15 times a day...if she has any time to look for it. Both are explorers of the last frontiers....