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HIGHLAND Student Signatures Set For Space Launch! |
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
TERRIFIC news! We just received word from NASA that our signatures are confirmed for flight on the upcoming Space Shuttle mission STS-120, which is currently scheduled for launch on Tuesday, October 23! Students at HIGHLAND will become part of a space mission when their personal signatures are launched aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-120. The event is a culmination to the students’ participation in the NASA and Lockheed Martin sponsored Student Signatures in Space® program.
Last May, students signed a Space Day poster. The poster-signing event on Space Day was a lot of fun for students. However, the launch of their signatures is even more exciting because it makes it all real.
This mission marks the 120th Space Shuttle flight and the 23rd Space Shuttle mission to go to the International Space Station. Retired Air Force Col. Pamela Melroy will command Mission STS-120. A veteran Shuttle pilot, Melroy is the second woman to command a Space Shuttle. Marine Corps Col. George Zamka will serve as pilot. Mission Specialists on the flight will be Scott Parazynski, Army Col. Douglas Wheelock, Stephanie Wilson, and Paolo Nespoli, a European Space Agency astronaut from Italy.
After the signatures return from space, the poster will be returned for permanent display at Highland along with a flight certificate and picture of the crew that carried the signatures into space.
Since the program began in 1997, more than 4 million students have participated in Student Signatures in Space. There is no cost for schools to participate. The program is limited to approximately 500 schools a year.
For more information on STS-120, please visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts120/mission_overview.html .
Or visit the Space Day web site at www.spaceday.org
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 23 October 2007 )
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