[sarex] ISS CREW CHATS WITH FC BARCELONA SOCCER TEAM

[Arthur Rowe]

SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

Aug. 3, 2006

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111 



SPACE STATION CREW CHATS WITH FC BARCELONA SOCCER TEAM

The International Space Station crew will take a special call at 4:10 
p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 8, from members of the European champion 
soccer team, FC Barcelona. During a visit to NASA's Johnson Space 
Center, Houston, the team will stop in Mission Control to make the 
call. NASA TV will broadcast the event live. 

The FC Barcelona team will be in Houston to play an Aug. 9 exhibition 
game against Club America, one of Mexico's top club teams. Players, 
coaches and guests of the team will visit mission control rooms used 
for the station and shuttle, and the historic control room used 
during Apollo missions and lunar landings. They will also visit 
training facilities including full-scale mockups of the station and 
shuttle. The private tour of Johnson Space Center is not open to the 
public. Media coverage of the visit is only by pool. Media should 
call the Johnson news room for details.

The space station is home to NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian 
cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas 
Reiter. Each crew member is spending approximately six months onboard 
the station. 

For links to streaming video, digital downlink and NASA TV 
information, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For information about the space station, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/station 

	
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