Debra J. Rahn
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                        May 7, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-8455)


RELEASE:  90-65

TRULY PRESENTED SPACE MODEL BY CANADIAN SCHOOL

     NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly met today in Ottawa with 
representatives from the Highly Gifted and Talented Student 
program of the Manitoulin Island Board of Education, Ontario, 
Canada.  Seventh grade student J.D. Wisner from C.C. Mclean 
Public School and Dianna Shaffer, program teacher, represented 
the students and faculty.

     As a part of their curriculum, Shaffer's students have spent 
the last year studying the development of NASA since its 
inception in 1958 and each student has completed one or two 
authentic scale models of a rocket, Skylab, the Space Shuttle and 
the Space Station.  Wisner presented Admiral Truly with a scale 
model of Skylab.

     In recognition of the student's outstanding efforts to 
expand their knowledge and understanding of space exploration, 
Truly presented the school with a framed montage of photos from 
NASA's Space Shuttle mission 41G flown in October l984 whose crew 
included Canada's first astronaut, Marc Garneau.  Also included 
with the photos were flags of the United States and Canada flown 
on that Space Shuttle mission.

     Truly was in Canada meeting with Dr. Larkin Kerwin, 
President, Canadian Space Agency, to discuss ongoing cooperative 
projects.  Truly also met with Canada's Minister of Industry, 
Science and Technology, the Honorable Benoit Bouchard and 
Canada's Minister of Science, the Honorable William Winegard.

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