{"id":19651,"date":"2021-01-11T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=19651"},"modified":"2021-01-10T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T14:11:03","slug":"nasa-astronauts-aboard-space-station-to-answer-questions-from-stem-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-astronauts-aboard-space-station-to-answer-questions-from-stem-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronauts Aboard Space Station to Answer Questions from STEM Students"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students from across the country will have an opportunity this week to ask questions of NASA astronauts aboard the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Space Station<\/a>.  The Earth-to-space call will air live at 12:20 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 7, on NASA Television and the agency\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/nasalive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-675x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19652\" width=\"690\" height=\"459\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-675x450.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-174x116.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NASA astronauts Shannon Walker and Kate Rubins will answer prerecorded questions from students engaged in Million Girls Moonshot, an after-school program launched by the STEM Next Opportunity Fund and aimed at inspiring underrepresented STEM students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The movement aims to engage 1 million school-age girls nationwide over the next five years in STEM learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Linking students directly to astronauts aboard the space station provides unique, authentic experiences designed to enhance student learning, performance, and interest in STEM. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astronauts living in space on the orbiting laboratory communicate with NASA\u2019s Mission Control Center in Houston 24 hours a day through the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/heo\/scan\/services\/networks\/sn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Space Network\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/heo\/scan\/services\/networks\/tdrs_main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than 20 years, astronauts have continuously lived and work on the space station, testing technologies, performing science and developing the skills needed to explore farther from Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through NASA\u2019s Artemis program, the agency will land the first woman and next man on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/artemis-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Moon in 2024,<\/a>\u00a0with eventual human exploration of Mars. Inspiring the next generation of explorers \u2013 the Artemis Generation \u2013 ensures America will continue to lead in space exploration and discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from across the country will have an opportunity this week to ask questions of NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",985,657,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-600x400.jpg",600,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-768x512.jpg",750,500,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-675x450.jpg",675,450,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",985,657,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",985,657,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",855,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",600,400,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",600,400,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",640,427,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nasa-astronut.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/education\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Education<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}