[LM_NET] STS-118 Education Downlinks planned NASA TV and Internet on Aug 14, 16, 19, and 21

["Anita M. Sohus" <Anita.M.Sohus@JPL.NASA.GOV>]

Here are the current planning times for Barbara Morgan and crewmates 
to have live conversations with students on the ground.  Others may 
watch on NASA TV or over the internet. Note that mission events may 
change this schedule, which is posted at 
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/mission_schedule.html.  Please 
check it for updates.

Aug 14, 5:09 EDT:  NASA Astronaut and teacher Barbara R. Morgan, 
along with crew members Alvin Drew, Dave Williams and Clay Anderson, 
will make a special telephone call to Idaho students from the 
International Space Station, more than 200 miles above the Earth. The 
downlink from the space station is scheduled for Aug. 14, 2007 at 
2:09 p.m. PDT.

Aug 16, 8:51 a.m. EDT:  NASA's Teaching From Space Office, at the 
Johnson Space Center, Houston, and the Challenger Center for Space 
Science Education in
Alexandria, Va., will host a 20-minute live conversation with STS-118
mission specialists Barbara R. Morgan and Rick Mastracchio. From
their perch aboard the International Space Station, Morgan and
Mastracchio will answer 20 questions from student winners of a
national poster contest held by the Challenger Center.

Aug. 19, 7:56 a.m. EDT.  Live conversation with Robert L. Ford NASA 
Explorer School, Lynn, Massachusetts.

Aug 21, 11:56 a.m. EDT.  Educational event with Canadian Space Agency.

For information on accessing NASA TV, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html (note that 
these events will also be internet accessible)

For information about the flight of STS-118, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts118/index.html

For information about Educational Resources related to STS-118, 
including these downlinks, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stseducation/home/index.html

Let me know (off list) if your organization does any activities 
related to STS-118 and I will share that information with the 
Teaching in Space office and hopefully with the STS-118 crew.

--Anita Sohus
Informal Education Lead
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA

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