Media are invited to visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston
ahead of Super Bowl LI to get an insider’s look at the central hub of human
space exploration and interview experts from across the agency and industry.
The event will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. CST on Wednesday, Feb. 1.
During this behind-the-scenes visit, media will see real-world
examples of astronaut training, NASA’s Orion spacecraft, deep space
technologies, and current work aboard the International Space Station. The
event will include a live, interactive conversation with NASA astronauts Shane
Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson, who are currently living and working 250 miles off
the Earth on the space station.
To apply, media must email jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov
no later than 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27.
NASA experts, including an astronaut, will be available for
interviews about a variety of human spaceflight activities.
Reporters also will have the opportunity to:
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Meet an astronaut and
the people who train and support them in space
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Tour special locations
around Johnson, including the current International Space Station and historic
Apollo Mission Control rooms, mockups of the space station, the Orion
spacecraft and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, a huge pool where astronauts
train for spacewalks
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Hear from NASA experts
as they explain the many analogies between America’s space program and football
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Learn about current
scientific experiments underway aboard the space station and new experiments
planned to launch in the future
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See how the space
station is being used as a scientific laboratory to test groundbreaking new
technologies that will help astronauts safely reach deep space destinations
NASA is on an ambitious Journey
to Mars that includes sending humans to the Red Planet in the 2030s, and
the agency’s robotic spacecraft are already leading the way. Orion and the
agency’s Space Launch System rocket will launch together for the first time in
2018 and be capable of sending humans farther from Earth than humans have ever
traveled. Aboard the International Space Station, astronauts are researching
many science disciplines, conducting cutting-edge technology development and
growing a commercial marketplace in space.
NASA will tweet about the event using the hashtag #SpaceBowl. For
more on NASA’s connections to football, visit:
For more information about Johnson Space Center, visit:
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