Her Highness Queen Elisabeth II of England visited America’s famous Goddard Space Center in Maryland, where she spoke with three astronauts onboard the ISS.

The Queen’s visit started in the morning and during the dialogue with the astronauts she learned about their daily routines and their scientific work.

American Suni Williams and two Russians, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Kotov were questioned by Cmdr. Michael Foale, which is a British-born astronaut working for NASA. He dialogued with his colleagues onboard the ISS standing next to the British Queen.

After hearing from the astronauts, the British monarch made a tour of Goddard, in Greenbelt, Maryland. She helped plant a tree in the garden outside the flight center to commemorate her visit.

NASA boasts with the fact that Goddard Space Center has the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space in the United States.