President to chat with orbiting astronauts

The 5:15 p.m. EST Wednesday call will originate in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to congratulate the orbiting crews of the ISS and space shuttle Endeavour for their successful ongoing mission.

Joining the president will be students from Birney Middle School of Detroit, Elkhorn Middle School of Omaha, St. Thomas the Apostle of Miami and Davidson IB Middle School of Davidson, N.C. The students are in Washington as winners of an engineering competition that involved 34,000 seventh and eighth graders from across the nation.

The Davidson IB Middle School team was the overall winner of the national competition.

NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information is available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.

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