Correction: Glow-in-the-Dark Plants Are Highlight of International Space Station Science Briefing

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Feb. 3, 2010

Allard Beutel
Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 
321-867-2468
allard.beutel@nasa.gov 

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-021

CORRECTION: GLOW-IN-THE-DARK PLANTS ARE HIGHLIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SCIENCE BRIEFING

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA will shed light on plant investigations 
aboard the International Space Station in a briefing at 12 p.m. EST, 
Friday, Feb. 5. The briefing from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in 
Florida will be broadcast live on NASA Television.

The upcoming shuttle mission, planned to launch Feb. 7, will continue 
assembling the space station so it can be used for continuous 
scientific research as a national and multinational laboratory. 

Microgravity plant growth experiments conducted aboard the station 
will help prepare for long-duration spaceflights of the future. The 
use of miniaturized green fluorescent proteins that glow in the dark, 
and associated compact imaging systems, may be used to help monitor 
crop conditions on Earth.

The briefing participants are:
-- Julie Robinson, International Space Station Program scientist, 
NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston
-- Robert Ferl, principal investigator of Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene 
Expression System at the University of Florida, Gainesville
-- Wagner Vendrame, International Space Station National Laboratory 
investigator for National Lab Pathfinder-Cells at the University of 
Florida, Homestead
-- Perry Johnson-Green, senior program scientist, Life and Physical 
Sciences, Canadian Space Agency 

NASA has published a new Web feature that provides examples of space 
station research dividends such as those related to cancer treatment 
delivery, food poisoning vaccine development, air purification, 
remote ultrasound tests and more.

For more information about space station science payoffs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/science/coolstation.html

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For more information about the upcoming shuttle mission, designated 
STS-130, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle  

	
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