NASA has assigned astronaut Mark Vande Hei to an upcoming mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 64/65 crew. Vande Hei, along with cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space a
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WASHINGTON, March 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Students from across California will have an opportunity Thursday, March 18, to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:35 p.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency s website.
NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Shannon Walker will answer prerecorded questions from K-12 students from seven local school districts: Pomona Unified, Ontario-Montclair, Chaffey Joint Unified, Claremont Unified, Mountain View Unified, Fontana Unified, and Rialto Unified. Glover, a native of Pomona, California, attended classes in the Chaffey Joint School District and graduated from Ontario High School. Rep. Norma Torres will give prerecorded opening and closing remarks for the event.
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SJU Grad Heading To International Space Station Next Month
A St. John s University graduate is headed to space for a second time. Mark Vande Hei will depart for the International Space Station on Friday, April 9th as a flight engineer.
Vande Hei, who graduated from SJU in 1989, will join two Russian cosmonauts on the mission. He previously went to the ISS from September 2017 to February 2018 for 168 days total, returning to Earth on February 28th, 2018.
On that mission he investigated the manufacturing of fiber optic filaments in microgravity, improved the accuracy of implantable glucose biosensors and measured the Sun s energy input to Earth, according to NASA.