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Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington                   March 13, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

RELEASE: 03-104

EDUCATOR ASTRONAUT REPORT CARD:  
NASA Meets with Future Explorers

     NASA Astronauts and Educators are traveling the nation, meeting 
face-to-face with future space explorers:  teachers and students.

Astronauts Barbara Morgan, Leland Melvin and Educator Astronaut 
co-manager Debbie Brown, are visiting schools, museums, and teacher 
conferences in New York, California, Texas, Puerto Rico, Ohio, 
Pennsylvania and Idaho in March and April, reaching out to discuss 
student and teacher involvement in the nation's space program.

More than 5,900 students, family members, and friends have nominated 
their teachers to become permanent members of NASA's Astronaut Corps. 
This week one student in Michigan nominated his teacher saying, "He 
makes me want to come to school every day." 

The application deadline for the Educator Astronaut Program is April 
30, 2003.

For event locations and dates, please contact Gretchen Cook- Anderson 
at: 202/358-0836.

To learn more about the Educator Astronaut Program and other NASA 
education activities 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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