Students Gather In Philadelphia To Speak With Astronauts In Space

June 22, 2012

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

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


MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-119

STUDENTS GATHER IN PHILADELPHIA TO SPEAK WITH ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE

WASHINGTON - Elementary, middle and high school students will have the
opportunity to speak with Expedition 31 flight engineers Don Pettit,
Joseph Acaba and Andr�� Kuipers aboard the International Space Station
at 10:35 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 26.

The event will take place at Philadelphia University in Philadelphia.
Media representatives are invited to attend. It will be broadcast
live on NASA Television and include video of the space station
residents.

The event will be hosted by Destination Imagination, a non-profit
organization that provides education programs for students to learn
and experience creativity, teamwork and problem solving.

To attend the event, reporters must contact Michelle Griffith at
813-597-8187 or michelle@clearviewcom.com. Philadelphia University is
located at 4201 Henry Avenue.

Pettit, Kuipers, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Konenenko arrived at the
space station on Dec. 23, 2011. Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady
Padalka and Sergei Revin completed the six-person crew on May 17.

This in-flight education downlink is one in a series with educational
organizations in the United States and abroad to improve science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (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

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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