December 13, 2008
Space Station Crew Exchanges Season Greetings With Earth
HOUSTON (AFNS) -- Soaring high above the Earth, the crew of the International Space Station beamed down season's greetings that will air on NASA Television starting Dec. 12.The public can return the extraterrestrial good will and send greetings to the crew by visiting: NASA.postcards
The e-mailed greetings can be sent through Jan. 5. Last year, thousands of messages were sent to the Expedition 16 crew from throughout the world.
The current station crew -- Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineers Sandra Magnus and Yury Lonchakov, will celebrate this holiday season 220 miles above Earth. Mr. Fincke and Mr. Lonchakov have been on the station since Oct. 14, and Ms. Magnus joined the crew Nov. 16. The main focus of their mission is to prepare the station to house six crewmembers for long-duration missions beginning in May 2009.
The station crew's greetings will air on NASA TV as part of the daily Video File, beginning at 11 a.m. CST Dec. 12. The video also will be broadcast in high definition on the NASA TV HD channel at 10 a.m., noon and 3 p.m. Dec. 15 through 17.
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information, visit: NASA.gov
While your at it you can send Christmas greetings to our soldiers by going here.
You can also play Santa by helping out Soldiers Angels They need help to get 40,000 care packages shipped before Christmas.
You can send your donations here and here
Here's a petition asking Congress to provide for free shipping for packages being sent to soldiers in the field. Our soldiers deserve this!
