Students from San Jose meet with NASA engineers and astronauts as part of the Zero Robotics summer program. (PHOTO COURTESY OF MARA WOLD, MONTEREY COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION)

Fifty years after the first moon landing, students in California this summer are getting a taste of space life.

At Zero Robotics, middle school students gather in teams across San Jose for five weeks to design a code that will control a small satellite. The best code is then uploaded to the International Space Station where live astronauts judge a competition between the satellites programmed by students from around the country.

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