Virginia Students To Speak Live With Space Station Resident

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July 02, 2012

Sonja Alexander 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-1761 
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Rachel Kraft 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
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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@xxxxxxx. 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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