Oklahoma Students And Educators To Speak Live With Space Station
Commander Kevin Ford
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Students and educators from Stillwater Public Schools and pre-service
teachers who are pursuing education degrees from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Okla.,
will speak with Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford aboard the International Space
Station at 12:30 p.m. EST Friday, Nov.
30. Students will ask Ford questions about life, work and
research aboard the orbiting laboratory during an even at the
university.
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Media representatives are invited to attend. The conversation
will be carried live on NASA Television.
To attend, journalists must contact Christy Lang at Christy.lang@okstate.edu or
405-744-8320. The event, themed Pioneers in Space: A New Frontier
for STEM Careers will be held at Oklahoma
State University Center for Research on STEM Teaching and
Learning, which is located at 245 Willard Hall.
Prior to the event, educators will prepare students for the
conversation with Commander Ford by incorporating NASA activities
into the classroom, creating awareness about the International
Space Station, and encouraging students to pursue careers in fields
related to science, technology, engineering and math
(STEM).
NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy
and Evgeny Tarelkin launched from Kazakhstan to the station on Oct. 23. The Nov.
30 in-flight education downlink is one in a series with
educational organizations in the United
States and abroad to improve 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. The
exact time of the downlink could change.
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,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
SOURCE NASA