NASA Astronauts To Visit Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

WASHINGTON -- The last crew to fly aboard a space shuttle will visit
New York City's Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum from 10 a.m. to 2:30
p.m. EDT on Thursday, Aug. 18.

Commander Christopher Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission
Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim completed a 13-day mission
to the International Space Station in July. The STS-135 flight marked
the end of NASA's 30-year-old shuttle program.

The STS-135 crew's events are open to news media representatives.
-- 10 to 11:30 a.m.: Presentation to more than 200 students from
Intrepid's educational programs (ages 7 - 15) inside the museum's
Allison & Howard Lutnick Theater
-- 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Meeting with public at two museum exhibits:
- Journey to Tomorrow traveling exhibit, a 53-foot long, walk-through
trailer packed with exciting interactive learning stations on the
museum's pier
- Project Kewl exhibit located in the museum's Exploreum Hall. Project
Kewl is an interactive educational game using the Xbox 360 and Kinect
sensor that allows visitors to explore the space station, walk on
Mars and take control of NASA's coolest robots.

In April, NASA selected the Intrepid as one of four museums to receive
a space shuttle. It will be the new home for the Enterprise,
currently on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space
Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia.

During the STS-135 mission, the crew delivered more than 9,400 pounds
of spare parts, spare equipment and other supplies in the Raffaello
multi-purpose logistics module --including 2,677 pounds of food --
that will sustain station operations for the next year.

For more information about the STS-135 mission and crew, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/STS-135

For more information about the Intrepid Museum, visit:

http://www.intrepidmuseum.org

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