NASA Astronauts and Educators are traveling the nation,
meeting face-to-face with future space explorers: teachers
and students.
Astronauts Barbara Morgan, Leland Melvin and Educator
Astronaut co-manager Debbie Brown, are visiting schools,
museums, and teacher conferences in New York, California,
Texas, Puerto Rico, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Idaho in March
and April, reaching out to discuss student and teacher
involvement in the nation’s space program.
More than 5,900 students, family members, and friends have
nominated their teachers to become permanent members of
NASA’s Astronaut Corps. This week one student in Michigan
nominated his teacher saying, “He makes me want to come to
school every day.”
The application deadline for the Educator Astronaut Program
is April 30, 2003.
For event locations and dates, please contact Gretchen Cook-
Anderson at: 202/358-0836.
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