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 |
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| 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. |
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