Space Station Astronauts To Connect With Central Florida Students
WASHINGTON -- International Space Station residents Scott Kelly, Cady
Coleman and Paolo Nespoli will speak on Tuesday, Jan. 11, to 150
students from Kathleen High School's Central Florida Aerospace
Academy (CFAA) in Lakeland, Fla.
The CFAA prepares students to go into advanced aerospace education or
the aerospace industry. In 2009, the academy received an agency grant
to develop a NASA-based science, technology, engineering and
mathematics, or STEM, curriculum.
The station astronauts will answer student questions on Jan. 11, from
11-11:20 a.m. EST. In preparation for the conversation with
astronauts in space, the students have been participating in science
activities, exploring careers in science with local scientists and
engineers, studying a floor plan of the International Space Station
and learning about experiments in microgravity.
The event will air live on NASA Television and on the agency's
website. Media interested in attending this event should contact Obie
Young at 407-341-3072 by 2 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10.
The live downlink will be shared with other students through the
Florida Aviation Network, the Federal Aviation Administration
Training Network and the Government Educational Training Network.
This will give approximately 93,000 students in Polk County's K-12
classrooms the opportunity to watch the event.
NASA astronauts Kelly and Coleman and Nespoli of the European Space
Agency are conducting science experiments aboard the space station.
Kelly serves as the Expedition 26 commander until March when he
returns home. Coleman and Nespoli will complete their station mission in May.
This live, in-flight education downlink is one in 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. Teaching From Space
promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the
education community using the unique environment of space and NASA's
human spaceflight program.
For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about NASA's education programs, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/education
For information about the International Space Station and the crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Source: NASA
