A group of students from UT and a trio of Knoxville high schools will get an out of this world opportunity Wednesday to chat with an astronaut on the International Space Station.
The results of the live discussion will be made available at a public event on Thursday, with recently named UT Space Institute Director Mark Whorton and Barbara Lewis, NASA Mission Control leader at Johnson Space Center, on hand to present research and answer questions.
That event will begin at 5 p.m. Thursday in room 300 of Dabney-Buehler Hall, 1406 Circle Drive.
Students from the Tickle College of Engineering, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Geography submitted an entry to NASA’s contest “Amateur Radio on the International Space Station,” highlighting some of the space-related innovations occurring at UT.