0 St Louis Cardinals Honor Sandra Magnus And Celebrate Nasa

In late Respected, the St. Louis Cardinals took NASA Astronaut Sandra Magnus to the circle match to administer out the first enter. Magnus isn't part of the Cardinals' as of line-up, but she is a native land conqueror.

Magnus' ancestry were planted in close Belleville, Ill. Her restore was part of NASA's Place of birth Heroes demonstration, which aims to usher and rouse the nothing special about NASA's piece quest missions, venerate both the advent of a six-person social gathering on the on the order of all-embracing Broad-based Space Control and the 40th golden jubilee of Apollo 11.

This was Magnus' first time back to St. Louis to the same extent her four-and-a-half month stay aboard the basis as part of the Go on a journey 18 social gathering in Move. Her first distraction was on STS-112 in 2002. Magnus earned a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's in electrical industrialized from the Missouri Bookish of Science and Equipment and a doctorate in materials science and industrialized from Georgia Establish of Equipment.

"I'm a hardly any high-class agitated about this (throwing the first enter) than in the air in piece having the status of I haven't specialized as extreme... I exert to make it to home facade," Magnus alleged.

And she did make it to home facade to kick-off the sold-out Cardinals match against the Houston Astros, the capital somewhere Magnus now lives as part of NASA's Astronaut Constituent at Johnson Space Starting point. The Cardinals won that night.

The self-proclaimed Cardinals fan was moreover on a fling to bonfire the once age of explorers in her native land. Magnus pull your leg to hundreds of students, by means of the Missouri Boy Scout troops, about her piece adventures and her love for mathematics and science.

At the St. Louis Science Starting point, hundreds of students laid on their backs to look up at the planetarium's self-control that was illuminated with videos of Magnus' fling, from open to landing, and dance to Magnus tell her stories. Afterwards, Magnus answered round about questions, signed autographs and parallel with students.

"It was my first time seeing an astronaut," alleged Laci Jo, a six-year-old from Moberly, Mo., whose represent ambitions shield artist, teacher, and now-astronaut. It was great to see the illustrate. My dearest part was execution her do back flips (aboard the basis)."

"She's perpetually been interested in piece," alleged Charli Wheeler, Laci Jo's mother. "But this is a female (astronaut). It shows her what women can do. We live in a small town somewhere there's still stereotypes that woman can't do whatever thing."

St. Louis is municipal for the Breach Bow, which provided early American pioneers into the West. But Magnus is making constant that's she's providing a portico for the once explorers into a very curious constraint - piece.

"I'm a girl and I do mathematics and science," Magnus alleged. "I would good deed all students, boys and girls, to pin down whatever be attracted to they may exert, and for sure don't scratch yourself. That's the key - don't scratch yourself. Purchase in yourself, and go for it."

For high-class information about the NASA Place of birth Heroes 2009 demonstration, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts