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Lightyear, who launched aboard space shuttle Discovery's [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-052908a.html]STS-124 mission[/URL] in May 2008 and returned on the same orbiter with the STS-128 crew last Friday, will be joined by NASA astronauts and the moonwalker who inspired his name, Buzz Aldrin, for a ticker tape parade down Main Street USA at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom on Friday, October 2. The procession is tentatively set to start at 2:45 p.m. EDT. While in space, Lightyear filmed several [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-062408a.html]educational[/URL] outreach [URL=http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum14/HTML/000687.html]videos[/URL] for NASA but mostly kept a low profile as to not interfere with the work of the space station's crew. Now back on Earth, Buzz Lightyear's space mission will continue. Disney is partnering with NASA to create a new online educational game and an online mission patch competition for school kids across America. NASA will fly the winning patch in space. In addition, NASA plans to announce on October 2 the details of a new educational competition that will give students the opportunity to design an experiment for the astronauts on the space station.
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