Media Advisory: 00-097


Attention: Early Morning
Producer
Thursday and Friday March 23 &
24

6-10 a.m. EST

10 Minute Windows–With B-Roll

  • Students in Patricia Edwards’ class at Rainbow Middle School in
    Gadsden, Ala. are part of unique NASA communication program
    designed for scientists on Earth to talk to Space Station crews.
  • Students talked live, via the Internet, with astronauts and scientists at
    NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center during testing of a computer
    system called the Telescience Resource Kit (TReK).
  • NASA provided TReK hardware and software to 26 classrooms
    across the United States.

  • Students linked directly to the Payload Operations Center at Marshall
    — the command post for all science aboard the Space Station —
    helping NASA fine-tune the network.
  • In the future, scientists on the ground will use TReK to get information
    from, and transmit commands to, experiments onboard the Space
    Station.
  • Students will also have opportunities to communicate directly with
    astronauts onboard the Space Station.
  • The project’s creator will talk about what TReK means for your
    students, teachers and NASA. 

     Who:
                                Bob Bradford
                                Engineer
                                Marshall Space Flight Center
 Satellite Windows:
                                10 minutes
 Satellite Coordinates:
                                GE-2, Transponder 9C,
                                85 degrees west longitude,
                                Frequency: 3880 MHz, audio: 6.8
                                MHz.
 Satellite Interview Information:
 Lindsey Rawl, Producer
 (256) 544-2228

    Beeper (256) 544-1183 PIN 0025
    Story Information:
    Steve Roy, Media Relations
    (256) 544-0034