Feb 9 2012
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-025 SOUTH CAROLINA STUDENTS TO SPEAK LIVE WITH SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS WEDNESDAY
WASHINGTON -- Students at Crayton Middle School in Columbia, S.C., will speak with NASA's Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station at 9:55 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Reporters are invited to attend. The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television. During the question-and-answer session, students will ask Burbank and Pettit about living and working on the space station. To attend, media representatives must contact Edith Caudle at ecaudle@richlandone.org or 803-231-7510. Crayton Middle School is located at 5000 Clemson Ave. in Columbia. 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 U.S. 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.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-023 NEXT NASA FUTURE FORUM WITH JOHN GLENN AT OHIO STATE FEB. 20-21
WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and Sen. John Glenn will discuss NASA's past, present and future during a NASA Future Forum at Ohio State University in Columbus on Feb. 20-21. The forum coincides with the 50th anniversary of Glenn's historic Friendship 7 space flight. Glenn will join space agency officials, Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee, Ohio State students, astronauts, technologists, scientists, and engineers to discuss the role NASA will play in advancing innovation, technology, science, engineering, education and the economy that benefits Ohio and the nation. The program will feature panel discussions on the importance of education to our nation's future in space, the benefit of commercialized space technology to our economy and lives here on Earth, and the shifting roles for the public, commercial and international communities in space. Media representatives interested in attending the forum must contact David Steitz for credentials at david.steitz@nasa.gov or 202-358-1730 by 3 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 16. The forum is open to the public, but registration has reached capacity and is closed. Social media users can participate in the forum via Twitter using the hashtag: #NASAFuture. During the event, Tweeps can submit questions by including @NASA_Technology in their tweet. NASA Television will begin airing historic footage of John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight and b-roll and produced video featuring Glenn's fellow Mercury Astronaut Scott Carpenter on Feb. 15. During the Ohio forum, NASA will post high-resolution still imagery of Sen. Glenn, panelists and events to the agency's news photo Flickr Ohio State University has produced a reporter multimedia resource website, featuring video sound bites from Sen. Glenn
