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Gretchen Cook-Anderson
Headquarters, Washington              March 27, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-0836)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-035

NASA SHARES VISION OF THE FUTURE WITH LOCAL STUDENTS

     NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, Congressman Sherwood 
Boehlert (R-NY) and other NASA officials are participating 
in events this weekend, to mark the conclusion of a 
statewide tour of NASA's Starship 2040 exhibit, a mock-up of 
a futuristic space liner.

The traveling exhibit, designed to share NASA's vision of 
commercial space flight, as it might exist in 40 years, will 
be at the Children's Museum of History, Natural History, 
Science & Technology March 28-30, 2003. The museum is at 311 
Main Street in Utica, N.Y. 

Administrator O'Keefe and Boehlert will attend events on 
Saturday, March 29, including a science fair, awards banquet 
for area junior and senior high school students at Utica 
College, and ceremonies at the Children's Museum. 
Administrator O'Keefe will accept a book, signed by museum 
visitors, in remembrance of the Shuttle Columbia astronauts. 

Astronaut Leland Melvin will discuss NASA's Educator 
Astronaut Program (EAP) Friday at Rome Free Academy at 10:00 
a.m. EST, and at Proctor High School at 1:25 p.m. EST. 

The Utica visit concludes Starship 2040's New York tour, 
which included stops in Syracuse, White Plains, Hempstead, 
Bushwick, the Bronx and Bayshore. 

For more information about NASA's Starship 2040 exhibit on 
the Internet, visit:

http://www.starship2040.com/about.html

For more information about NASA's Educator Astronaut Program 
on the Internet, visit:

http://edspace.nasa.gov/

For more information about NASA on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/

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