Sun, Oct 24, 2010
200 Explorers Have Called The Station Home
NASA will commemorate the 10th anniversary of human life, work
and research on the International Space Station (ISS) with an
October 27 series of roundtable discussions. The events will
feature former space station residents, key leaders and team
members who have guided the station through its first 10 years.
Panelists at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida; Johnson Space
Center in Houston; Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL;
and NASA Headquarters in Washington will discuss the challenges and
accomplishments of the station's first decade of assembly and
research and consider the promise of the upcoming decade of
microgravity research.
On November 2, 2000, Expedition 1 Commander Bill Shepherd and
Flight Engineers Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko became the first
residents of the space station. Since then, 200 explorers have
visited the orbiting complex, 15 nations have contributed modules
and hardware, and more than 600 experiments have been conducted
aboard the station.
The all-day discussions will begin with an 0900 storytelling
event featuring veteran Skylab astronaut Joe Kerwin. That event was
recorded on Wednesday, October 20, at Johnson. The October 27 event
will be held at Kennedy Space Center from 1130 to 1230 EDT, and
will include:
- Bob Cabana, director, Kennedy Space Center
- Josie Burnett, director, ISS and spacecraft processing
- Bill Dowdell, deputy director, ISS and spacecraft
processing
- David Bethay, director, program management development, The
Boeing Company
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