[NASA] Idaho Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

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NASA astronaut and Expedition 72 Flight Engineer Don Pettit points a camera outside a window on the International Space Station’s Poisk module for a sun photography session. (Credit: NASA)

Students from Hawthorne Elementary School in Boise, Idaho, will have the chance to hear NASA astronaut Don Pettit answer their prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) related questions from aboard the International Space Station.

Watch the 20-minute space-to-Earth call at 12:30 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10, on

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and learn how to

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on various platforms, including social media.

Media interested in covering the event must RSVP by 5 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 7, to

Dan Hollar at *****@*****.tld or 208-854-4064.

For more than 24 years, astronauts have continuously lived and worked aboard the space station, testing technologies, performing science, and developing skills needed to explore farther from Earth. Astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory communicate with NASA’s Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through

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’s (Space Communications and Navigation) Near Space Network.

Important research and technology investigations taking place aboard the space station benefit people on Earth and lays the groundwork for other agency missions. As part of NASA’s

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campaign, the agency will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars; inspiring Artemis Generation explorers and ensuring the United States continues to lead in space exploration and discovery.

See videos and lesson plans highlighting space station research at:

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Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
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Johnson Space Center, Houston
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