Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
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Rachel Kraft
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-019
EAST COAST STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION COMMANDER
WASHINGTON -- Students participating in a U.S. Coast Guard Academy
mentoring program will speak with Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank
aboard the International Space Station at 11:15 EST on Thursday, Feb.
2.
Burbank, a NASA astronaut and retired Coast Guard captain, will talk
to kindergarten through 12th-grade students about life on the space
station. The event, hosted by the academy, will be broadcast live on
NASA Television and include video of Burbank in the live
question-and-answer session.
The mentored students, accompanied by their Coast Guard cadet mentors,
will participate from five schools across the Eastern seaboard,
including Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern
Connecticut in New London, Conn.; The Friendship Academy of
Engineering and Technology in Baltimore; Coretta Scott King Young
Women's Leadership Academy High School in Atlanta; Key Biscayne K-8
Center in Miami; and Maritime and Science Academy, also in Miami.
Through the guidance of their mentors, students are learning about
space and preparing for this interactive event.
Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin
arrived at the station Nov. 15. NASA's Don Pettit, cosmonaut Oleg
Kononenko and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers joined
the crew on 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:
For information about NASA's education programs, visit:
For information about the International Space Station, visit:
To follow Twitter updates from Burbank, visit:
http://twitter.com/AstroCoastie
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