Frank Rubio, a NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station, will speak to students associated with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of the American Latino.
NASA coverage of the Earth-to-space call will begin at 11 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 18, on NASA Television, theNASA app, and the agencyswebsite.
Rubio, who is on track to break the record for longest single flight mission by a U.S. astronaut, will answer prerecorded questions from Arizona, Georgia, Texas, and Washington, D.C., students. Rubio earned his doctorate from the University of Uniformed Services of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. Rubio is the first NASA astronaut of Salvadoran heritage to fly to space. The downlink, hosted by the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Latino will showcase Latino role models in STEM fields and inspire students to pursue science, technology, engineering, and math.
