NASA Invites Public to Send Holiday Greetings to Space Station

U.S. Newswire, December, 2007

To: NATIONAL EDITORS

Contact: Headquarters, Washington, Katherine Trinidad, 1-202- 358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; Johnson Space Center, Houston, Nicole Cloutier- Lemasters, 1-281-483-5111, nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov

HOUSTON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many people will travel for the holidays, but no one will be farther from home than the astronauts aboard the International Space Station. With that in mind, NASA invites the public to send personal holiday greetings to the orbiting crew.

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, the first female to command the station, and her crewmates are circling Earth at 17,500 mph, orbiting 16 times each day. Whitson and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko, a Russian cosmonaut, have been on the station since Oct. 12. Flight...

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