Texas Students to Speak Live With Space Station Crew

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan. 27, 2012

Ann Marie Trotta
Headquarters, Washington
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Rachel Kraft
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-014

TEXAS STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION CREW

WASHINGTON -- Fifth- through eighth-grade students at Asa Low 
Intermediate School in Mansfield, Texas, will speak with NASA's 
Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit 
aboard the International Space Station at 11:50 a.m. EST on Tuesday, 
Jan. 31. Media representatives are invited to attend. The event will 
be broadcast live on NASA Television. 

On Jan. 27, the students will take part in a series of activities 
focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). 
The school also will host a space night to share lessons about space 
with students. Administrators temporarily have renamed the school 
"N"Asa Low in honor of the event.

To attend, media representatives must contact Richie Escovedo at 
richieescovedo@xxxxxxxxxxxx or 817-299-6349. Asa Low Intermediate 
School is located at 1526 N. Walnut Creek Drive.

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 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/nasatv

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

To follow Twitter updates from Burbank and Pettit, visit: 

http://twitter.com/AstroCoastie 

and 

http://twitter.com/Astro_Pettit

	
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