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Space industry officials including a space flight veteran plan to visit a machine ship in southwest Ohio that is contributing to NASA's Orion and Space Launch System programs. Organizers say retired astronaut Brian Duffy and members of the Orion and SLS leadership team will be joined Wednesday by U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, other local officials and community leaders, and students in the program at Metalex Manufacturing Inc., in Cincinnati.
Retired U.S. astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate Scott Kelly will speak at the school's "Welcome Week Life of Mind" celebration. Kelly's talk is a part of UT's First-Year Studies 100 class, which is a zero-credit pass-fail class that gives students their first taste of college studies.
Not all of the kids of West Orange, New Jersey's Pleasantdale Elementary School were exactly thrilled when they heard their school would be renamed to Kelly Elementary, according to the school's PTA members. But they quickly warmed to the idea - and yesterday , they cheered the loudest of all as members of the school community and city residents gathered to celebrate their identical-twin hometown astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly.