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Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson to speak at UCI about living aboard space station

Tracy Caldwell Dyson, a former postdoctoral chemistry scholar at UC Irvine, returns to share her experiences living and working aboard the International Space Station for six months. This is a wonderful opportunity for the public, including children 10 and older, to see an astronaut in person and learn firsthand about science, space and what it takes to be an astronaut.

Event:

International Space Station Expedition 23/24: Living Above the World at Mach 25

Date: Monday, March 7, 2011
Time: 7 p.m.
Location:

Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering (bldg. 80, grid C4 on campus map)

Supplemental Information:

Free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture. Seating is limited; there will be overflow rooms with streaming live video. Parking is free in the Beckman Center lot. Caldwell Dyson will be available for media interviews from 6:15 to 7 p.m. Media planning to attend should contact Melissa Sweet at 929-824-2628 or msweet@uci.edu or Janet Wilson at 949-824-3969 or janethw@uci.edu.

Astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson
NASA
Astronaut and former UCI postdoctoral scholar Tracy Caldwell Dyson is scheduled to speak Monday night.

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janethw@uci.edu

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