North Carolina Students To Talk Live With NASA Space Station Astronaut

Feb. 01, 2013

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

Tammie Letroise-Brown
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
tammie.r.letroise-brown@nasa.gov


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NORTH CAROLINA STUDENTS TO TALK LIVE WITH NASA SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT

WASHINGTON -- Students and teachers from the Triangle area of North
Carolina will speak with NASA Expedition 34 flight engineer Tom
Marshburn aboard the International Space Station at 10:15 a.m. EST,
Tuesday, Feb. 5. The space-to-ground conversation will be open to
news media and carried live on NASA Television and the agency's
website.

Students will gather at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
to ask astronaut Marshburn questions about life, work and research
aboard the orbiting laboratory, where he arrived in December and will
remain until May. Marshburn previously flew aboard space shuttle
Endeavour on mission STS-127 in 2009.

To attend the event, reporters must contact Jonathon Pishney at
jonathon.pishney@naturalsciences.org or 919-733-7450, ext. 304. The
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is located at 11 West Jones
St. in Raleigh.

NASA activities have been incorporated into classes at local schools
in preparation for the conversation with the space station astronaut.
Linking students directly to the astronauts aboard the station
provides them with an authentic, live experience of space
exploration, space study and the scientific components of space
travel and possibilities of life in space. The museum also has
crafted educator professional development activities for the teachers
participating in the event.

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 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.

For NASA TV schedule and video streaming 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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