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
WASHINGTON – Elementary, middle and high
school students will have the opportunity to speak with Expedition 31 flight
engineers Don Pettit, Joseph Acaba and André 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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