Mar 25 2011
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-066 MASSACHUSETTS STUDENTS CALL SPACE STATION ASTRONAUT
WASHINGTON -- Students in Springfield, Mass., will make a special call to Expedition 27 Flight Engineer and western Massachusetts resident Cady Coleman aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, March 29. The event, which includes a video link with Coleman, will air live on NASA Television at 11:41 a.m. EDT. Sixth-grade students from Elmer J. McMahon School, Dr. Marcella R. Kelly School and STEM Middle Academy will participate and learn about the important role the station plays in scientific discovery and space exploration. The downlink will be hosted at Springfield Technical Community College, located at One Armory Square, Springfield, Mass. The morning of the event, students will take part in activities focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) led by graduate students from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The in-flight education downlink is part of a series with educational organizations in the U.S. and abroad to improve teaching and learning in STEM subjects. It is an integral component of Teaching From Space, a NASA education program that promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique environment of space and NASA's human spaceflight program.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-067 NASA INVITES MEDIA TO OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT MARCH 29-30 IN CALIFORNIA
WASHINGTON -- Journalists are invited to attend NASA's first open source software development summit March 29-30 at the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The event runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT on both days. The event will bring together engineers, policy makers and members of the open source community. They will discuss challenges within the existing open source policy framework and propose modifications to enhance NASA's development, release and use of software. Tsengdar Lee, the agency's acting chief technology officer for information technology, Nicholas Skytland, director of NASA's Open Government Initiative, and other participants, will be available for interviews from noon to 1 p.m. on both days.
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