Michael Mewhinney May 18, 2004
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
Phone: 650/604-3937 or 650/604-9000
E-mail: Michael.Mewhinney@nasa.gov
What: Interview opportunity at the International Space Station Trailers exhibit “Space Station Imagination”
and interviews with astronaut Janice Voss.
Where: Space Station Imagination
Space Station Imagination will be located at NASA Ames Research Center
in the parking lot adjacent to the Exploration Center, located at the main gate to Moffett Field.
Who: Astronaut Janice Voss
Voss will be available for interviews at NASA Ames on Friday, May 21
and at Saratoga Elementary School on Monday, May 24.
When: Space Station Imagination to Visit NASA Ames Research Center
Space Station Imagination will be open to the public May 18 to June 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesdays through Fridays, and on Saturdays and Sundays from 12 noon to 4 p.m. PDT.
Interview Opportunities with Astronaut Janice Voss
On-site interviews will be available on Friday, May 21, from 6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. PDT
in the International Space Station Trailer Exhibit at NASA Ames Research Center.
Contact Victoria Steiner today at 650/604-0176 to schedule an interview with
Astronaut Janice Voss in the International Space Station Trailers Exhibit, “Space Station Imagination.”
Voss will also be available on Monday, May 24, from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. PDT
at Saratoga Elementary School, 14592 Oak Street, Saratoga, Calif.
If interested in interviewing Voss, please contact Teri Brandt at 408/867-3476,
Ext. 233 or by cell at 408/621-4469.
Space Station Imagination
NASA’s International Space Station Trailers Exhibit, “Space Station Imagination,” is coming to NASA Ames Research Center May 18 to June 8. The exhibit is coordinated by NASA as part of the Agency’s nationwide community outreach program. The exhibit provides a glimpse of what it is like to live and work aboard this international orbiting laboratory. Space Station Imagination is free to the public and accessible to people with disabilities.
Astronaut Janice Voss is a native of South Bend, Ind., but considers Rockford, Ill., to be her hometown. She holds a master of science degree in electrical engineering and a doctorate in aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Voss became an astronaut in 1991 and is qualified for flight assignment as a mission specialist. She served aboard STS-57 in 1993, STS-63 in 1995, STS-83 and STS-94 in 1997 and STS-99 in 2000. Voss is a veteran of five space flights and has logged more than 49 days in space, traveling 18.8 million miles in 779 Earth orbits.
For more information about the Space Station Imagination exhibit visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/programs/exhibits/trailers/
-end-
- end -
text-only version of this release
To receive Ames news releases via e-mail, send an e-mail with the word "subscribe" in the subject line to ames-releases-request@lists.arc.nasa.gov. To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to the same address with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.