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1. NASA Space Station Astronaut Calls Home to Speak with Minnesota Students
2. NASA Astronaut Available for Interviews on Eve of Space Station Mission

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 12:21:54 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Space Station Astronaut Calls Home to Speak with Minnesota Students

October 21, 2013

Ashle Harris Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601

Report #M13-159

NASA Space Station Astronaut Calls Home to Speak with Minnesota Students

NASA astronaut and Expedition 37 flight engineer Karen Nyberg, currently orbiting aboard the International Space Station, will speak with students in Henning, Minn , near her hometown, this week

The live, station-to-ground video chat will take place at 9:45 a m CDT (10:45 a m EDT) Wednesday, Oct 23, at the Henning School, 500 School Ave It will be carried live on NASA Television and the agency�s website

Nyberg, who arrived at the station in May for a six-month mission, is a graduate of Henning, a small, rural school with an enrollment of approximately 400 students in grades K-12 During the event, the students will be able to ask Nyberg questions about life, work and research aboard the orbiting laboratory

Media interested in attending the event can do so by contacting Henning School Principal Thomas Williams at 218-583-2927, ext 8157, or twilliams@henning k12 mn us

The students have been following Nyberg's mission, and NASA activities have been incorporated into classes at the school in preparation for the conversation Linking students directly to astronauts aboard the space station provides them with an authentic, live experience of space exploration, space study and the scientific components of space travel and possibilities of life in space

This in-flight education downlink is one in a series with educational organization in the United States to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics (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

To keep up with Nyberg�s research and life on the station through Twitter, follow:

@AstroKarenN

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/nasatv

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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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:42:02 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Astronaut Available for Interviews on Eve of Space Station Mission

October 21, 2013

Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-160

NASA Astronaut Available for Interviews on Eve of Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, a Waterbury, Conn , native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6-7 a m EDT Friday, Oct 25 Mastracchio will participate in the interviews from Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and depart the following day for the launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Leading up to the live interviews, NASA Television will air at 5:30 a m pre-recorded video of Mastracchio's mission training and previous spaceflights To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-8684 no later than 2 p m Thursday, Oct 24 Mastracchio earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut and postgraduate degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Houston at Clear Lake A veteran of three space shuttle flights, Mastracchio was a mission specialist on STS-106, STS-118 and STS-131, and has logged almost 40 days in space He also conducted six spacewalks totaling 38 hours, 30 minutes Mastracchio will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 11:14 p m EST Nov 6, along with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Federal Space Agency The trio will start their time aboard the station as part of Expedition 37, and will return to Earth in May 2014 as part of the Expedition 38 crew When Mastracchio, Wakata Tyurin arrive at the station Nov 7, they will join Expedition 37 astronauts Karen Nyberg and Michael Hopkins of NASA, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, Sergey Ryazanskiy and Fyodor Yurchikhin This crew will participate in several hundred experiments that cross the fields of biology and biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their mission, which will last almost six months For more information on NASA TV coverage, see: http://www nasa gov/ntvnews Mastracchio's complete biography is available at: http://go nasa gov/YlLlv5 Follow Mastracchio and other NASA astronauts via Twitter at: @AstroRM and @NASA_Astronauts

For more information about the International Space Station and Expedition 38, visit: http://www nasa gov/station -end-

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