{"id":3891,"date":"2009-12-31T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/winter-high-school-alumnus-in-orbit-on-space-station-will-talk-with-wisconsin-students-state-representative\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:17:00","slug":"winter-high-school-alumnus-in-orbit-on-space-station-will-talk-with-wisconsin-students-state-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/winter-high-school-alumnus-in-orbit-on-space-station-will-talk-with-wisconsin-students-state-representative.php","title":{"rendered":"Winter High School Alumnus in Orbit on Space Station Will Talk with Wisconsin Students, State Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wisconsin Rep. Mary Williams<\/span> will attend a discussion Jan. 6, 2010, among astronauts <\/span>orbiting 220 miles above Earth and students from two Wisconsin schools. International Space Station<\/a> <\/span>Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi will speak with students from Winter School in Winter, Wis., and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School<\/span> in Hayward, Wis.

Williams<\/span>, Creamer and Noguchi are members of the station's Expedition 22 crew<\/span>. Williams is a 1976 graduate of Winter High School and considers Winter his hometown.<\/p>

The live call from orbit will take place between 8:40 a.m. and 9 a.m. CST during an event at Winter High School from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The event will include videos of the astronauts' launches to the orbiting outpost aboard Soyuz rockets. Additionally, Mike Simonson of Wisconsin Public Radio will display objects brought back from Williams' launch in Kazakhstan.<\/p>

Students have been preparing for the downlink by studying science <\/span>experiments, designing presentations and creating space and mission-themed art projects. Students also have made a welcome center in the main entrance of the school that contains a moonscape, 3-D star<\/span> and planet mobiles<\/span>, a spaceship and an astronaut<\/span>.<\/p>

The downlink is one in a series with educational organizations in the U.S. and abroad to improve teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It is an integral component of Teaching From Space, a NASA Education<\/span> office. Teaching From Space <\/span>promotes learning opportunities and builds partnerships with the education community using the unique environment of human spaceflight.<\/p>

NASA Television<\/span> will air video of Williams, Creamer and Noguchi during the downlink. For NASA TV<\/span> downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:
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http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ntv<\/a>
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For information about NASA's education program<\/span>s, visit:
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http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/education<\/a>
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For information about the space shuttle program<\/span>, visit:
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http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/shuttle<\/a><\/span><\/p>

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