posted August 14, 2006 03:14 PM               

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NASA/JSC will support the annual Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce Ballunar Festival from Aug. 25 to 27 with a staffed exhibit tent.

The exhibit features an air-conditioned tent, two NASA Vision for Space Exploration pop ups, kids photo ops, Camelot kiosk, inflatable NASA logo, NASA game wheel, STS-115 graphic panel, astronaut autographs and a graphic panel provided by the Houston Zoo on the cooperative prairie chicken project. The Starport Gift Shop will also share a portion of the tent.

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posted August 21, 2006 03:30 PM               

Astronauts Joe Acaba, Randy Bresnik, Satoshi Furukawa Naoko Yamazaki, Kevin Ford, Timothy Kopra, and Hans Schlegel will chat with the public and sign autographs from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Saturday, August 26 in the RE/MAX and NASA tents.

An hour-by-hour schedule is now available on Sightings.

Acaba and Bresnik joined NASA this year after completing training as members of the newest astronaut class. Furukawa and Yamazaki, also rookie astronauts, represent the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Ford trains and works space missions as a Space Shuttle and International Space Station CAPCOM, or spacecraft communicator, in the Mission Control Center. Austin-born Kopra works in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office. Schlegel, from the European Space Agency, served as a payload specialist on STS-55 aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 1993 and is now assigned to the STS-122 crew.