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 -- 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@smv.org. 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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Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (top),
Expedition 32 commander; and Yuri Malenchenko, flight engineer, participate in
a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) to continue outfitting the
International Space Station. During the five-hour, 51-minute spacewalk on
August 20, 2012, Padalka and Malenchenko moved the Strela-2 cargo boom from the
Pirs docking compartment to the Zarya module to prepare Pirs for its eventual
replacement with a new Russian multipurpose laboratory module. The two
spacewalking cosmonauts also installed micrometeoroid debris shields on the
exterior of the Zvezda service module and deployed a small science satellite. 
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