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  Program: Living In Iowa #1324
  Broadcast Date: May. 1, 2003
  

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Astronaut Peggy Whitson describes her 'dream vacation' - 6 months on the Space Station in 2002.

Footage includes interviews in space, interviews from her home town in Iowa, and her parents' comments about their pride in their daughter.

Since this feature was broadcast in 2003, Whitson has also become the first female commander of the International Space Station. (see transcript and link to "Intelligent Talk" on IPTV.org.)

Here is the original "Living in Iowa" description from April 24, 2003:
In this feature, Peggy Whitson tells stories and shows pictures of her summer trip. It wasn't exactly a vacation, but it was the trip of a lifetime.

Peggy is a NASA Astronaut from the small town of Beaconsfield who spent six months during the summer and fall of 2002 on the International Space Station that orbits 240 miles above the earth at 17,500 miles per hour.

We caught up with her at public appearances at the Science Center of Iowa in Des Moines and at her old high school in Mount Ayr. And, along the way we heard some out-of-this-world adventure stories from Peggy while in space.

Documents:

• Transcript of International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson (RTF)

• astronauts
• Iowa
• Iowa
• NASA
• space
• space station

Post Date: March 19, 2009