Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1601
ann.marie.trotta@nasa.gov
Rachel Kraft
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-025
SOUTH CAROLINA STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON -- Students at Crayton Middle School in Columbia, S.C.,
will speak with NASA's Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight
Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station at 9:55
a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Reporters are invited to attend.
The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television. During the
question-and-answer session, students will ask Burbank and Pettit
about living and working on the space station. To attend, media
representatives must contact Edith Caudle at ecaudle@richlandone.org
or 803-231-7510. Crayton Middle School is located at 5000 Clemson
Ave. in Columbia.
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 U.S. 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 and Pettit, visit:
http://twitter.com/AstroCoastie
and
http://twitter.com/Astro_Pettit
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