Special Cosmonaut presentations

["Dana,Kathy,or Sarah Dawes" <ddawes@moscow.com>]

Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet Russian Cosmonaut Pavel
Vinogradov and Mission Control Specialist Dr. Alexandre Martynov this Sunday
and Monday when they make two FREE presentations in Moscow.  They will be
providing a public lecture on Sunday afternoon, and a special Cosmonaut
Family Night presentation on Monday evening.  The two men will share their
experiences and insights on the Russian space program and the future of
space travel.  They will also show
videos of one of the Mir Missions depicting life aboard the space station
and a video about working outside the station.  They also have videos about
a planned mission to Mars.

Free Public Lecture
Sunday, February 24
Kenworthy Performing Arts Center
508 South Main Street
Moscow, ID Moscow, ID
3:00pm-4:30pm

Special Cosmonaut Family Night
Monday, February 25, 2002
Moscow Junior High School Multipurpose Room
1410 East D Street
Moscow, ID
7:00pm-8:30pm

This wonderful opportunity is part of the "Window on the Universe" events
that will be happening during the spring on the Palouse, and is sponsored by
the Institute for Mathematics, Interactive Technologies, and Science
(IMITS), the Center for Evaluation, Research and Public Service (CERPS), the
University of Idaho College of Education and the Office of Diversity and
Human Rights, the Idaho Space Grant Consortium (ISGC), and the Palouse
Discovery Science Center (PDSC).

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Pavel Vinogradov was the flight engineer of the Mir-24 mission
from August 1997-February 1998.  He and the Russian Commander of the Mir-24
worked with two American astronauts, Michael Foale and David Wolf on the
space station.  During this mission the crew accomplished seven internal and
external spacewalks to repair the space station.

            Alexander Martynov was the Head of the Ballistics Department of
the Russian Space Program from 1968-1992.  He designed re-entry modules and
controlled their flights to provide safe landings on Earth, Mars, Venus, and
other planets.