Friday, January 27, 2012

Texas Students to Speak Live With Space Station Crew

Jan. 27, 2012

Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1601<br ?> ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov

Rachel Kraft
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-014

TEXAS STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION CREW

WASHINGTON -- Fifth- through eighth-grade students at Asa Low
Intermediate School in Mansfield, Texas, will speak with NASA's
Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit
aboard the International Space Station at 11:50 a.m. EST on Tuesday,
Jan. 31. Media representatives are invited to attend. The event will
be broadcast live on NASA Television.

On Jan. 27, the students will take part in a series of activities
focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
The school also will host a space night to share lessons about space
with students. Administrators temporarily have renamed the school
"N"Asa Low in honor of the event.

To attend, media representatives must contact Richie Escovedo at
richieescovedo@misdmail.org or 817-299-6349. Asa Low Intermediate
School is located at 1526 N. Walnut Creek Drive.

Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin
arrived at the station Nov. 15. Pettit, European Space Agency
astronaut Andre Kuipers and cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko joined them Dec.
23.

This in-flight education downlink is one in a series with educational
organizations in the United States and abroad to improve STEM
teaching and learning. It is an integral component of NASA's Teaching
From Space education program, which promotes learning opportunities
and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique
environment of space and NASA's human spaceflight program.

The exact time of the downlink could change. For NASA TV downlink,
schedule and streaming video information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv

For information about NASA's education programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/education

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

To follow Twitter updates from Burbank and Pettit, visit:

http://twitter.com/AstroCoastie

and

http://twitter.com/Astro_Pettit


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