Virginia Students To Speak Live With Space Station Resident

July 02, 2012

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
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sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

Rachel Kraft
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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rachel.h.kraft@nasa.gov



MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-122

VIRGINIA STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION RESIDENT

WASHINGTON -- More than 200 students will meet at the Science Museum
of Virginia in Richmond, Va., to speak with Expedition 32 flight
engineer Joe Acaba aboard the International Space Station at 8:55
a.m. EDT, Thursday, July 5. Media representatives are invited to
attend.
The question-and-answer discussion, coordinated by NASA's Langley
Research Center in Hampton, Va., and the museum, will be broadcast
live on NASA Television and include video of Acaba. The students,
most of whom are Hispanic, will ask questions about life, work and
research on the space station. Several of the questions will be asked
and answered in Spanish.

To attend the event, reporters must contact Nancy Tait at
ntait@smv.org. The museum is located at 2500 West Broad Street in
Richmond.
Many of the students also are participating in other NASA programs,
including camps associated with the agency's Summer of Innovation
(SoI) project. SoI provides hands-on learning opportunities for
middle school students and educators through NASA-unique science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational activities
during the summer school break.

Acaba arrived at the space station with Russian Federal Space Agency's
cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin on May 17. They will be
joined later this month by NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko.

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/ntv

To follow Twitter updates from Acaba, visit:


http://twitter.com/AstroAcaba

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


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