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Topic: NASA tour a real kick for Barça
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted August 09, 2006 02:25 PM
   
  From the Houston Chronicle: quote:
Coach, 3 players get to talk with space station crewIt's not every day a bunch of soccer players make a phone call to space. Then again, it's not every day FC Barcelona, one of the best clubs in the world, is in town. Three of the reigning European champion's stars and its head coach spent time Tuesday chatting with the crew of the international space station as part of a special-access tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake. ... The team presented Pontes, space station flight director Rick Labrode and the space station residents with replica Barça jerseys. NASA presented the team with a photograph of the city of Barcelona from space and a Spanish flag flown in mission STS 121.
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canyon42
Member Posts: 16
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Registered: Mar 2006
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posted August 09, 2006 08:18 PM
Gee, doesn't it seem to anyone else that this is a story of only "regional" interest and something that is only a "waste of time" for the astronauts above? And shoot, not a Longhorn in sight. :^)IP: Logged |
mark plas
Member Posts: 256
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted August 10, 2006 04:14 AM
I think you mean with regional interest the rest of the world rightIP: Logged |
paul prendergast
Member Posts: 349
From: crawley west sussex UK
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted August 10, 2006 11:16 AM
Like the Photos, but i wish it would have been Chelsea.IP: Logged |
