Students from two local middle schools will gather in the Edwards Air Force Base theater next Thursday, March 2, to speak with the current crew of the International Space Station. Sixth and seventh grade students from Edwards Middle School at Edwards and Gifford C. Cole Middle School in east Lancaster will ask questions of Expedition 12 commander Bill McArthur and Russian flight engineer Valery Tokarev via a television link that will air on NASA TV’s education channel.
The students will have 20 minutes between 10:30 and 10:50 a.m. to ask the crew about Earth science studies conducted on the space station. The event will be the conclusion of a classroom unit on Earth science with a concentration on earthquakes.
In addition to the downlink, a NASA education specialist will explain living and working in space by using a mock-up space suit and real space food. The students will also participate in a space station size and scale activity.
Edwards and Cole are members of the NASA Explorer Schools program, which establishes three-year partnerships between the agency and schools across the nation.
| What: | International Space Station live downlink |
| Who: | Space Station crew answers middle school students’ science questions |
| When: | 9:30 a.m. to noon PST, Thursday, March 2, 2006 |
| Where: | Edwards Air Force Base theater, Bldg. 2660 |
| Media access: | Contact Beth Hagenauer, NASA Dryden public affairs, at (661) 276-7960 at least 72 hours in advance of event. |
NASA TV is also available on the Internet at: https://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
For information about the crew and the space station, visit: https://www.nasa.gov/station.
For information about NASA education programs on the Web, visit: http://education.nasa.gov.
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Beth Hagenauer
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