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T O P I C R E V I E WRobert Pearlman From the Houston Chronicle: quote:Coach, 3 players get to talk with space station crewIt's not every day a bunch of soccer players make a phone call to space. Then again, it's not every day FC Barcelona, one of the best clubs in the world, is in town.Three of the reigning European champion's stars and its head coach spent time Tuesday chatting with the crew of the international space station as part of a special-access tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake....The team presented Pontes, space station flight director Rick Labrode and the space station residents with replica Barça jerseys. NASA presented the team with a photograph of the city of Barcelona from space and a Spanish flag flown in mission STS 121. Continue reading the article here.canyon42Gee, doesn't it seem to anyone else that this is a story of only "regional" interest and something that is only a "waste of time" for the astronauts above? And shoot, not a Longhorn in sight. :^)mark plasI think you mean with regional interest the rest of the world rightpaul prendergastLike the Photos, but i wish it would have been Chelsea.
From the Houston Chronicle:
quote:Coach, 3 players get to talk with space station crewIt's not every day a bunch of soccer players make a phone call to space. Then again, it's not every day FC Barcelona, one of the best clubs in the world, is in town.Three of the reigning European champion's stars and its head coach spent time Tuesday chatting with the crew of the international space station as part of a special-access tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake....The team presented Pontes, space station flight director Rick Labrode and the space station residents with replica Barça jerseys. NASA presented the team with a photograph of the city of Barcelona from space and a Spanish flag flown in mission STS 121.
It's not every day a bunch of soccer players make a phone call to space. Then again, it's not every day FC Barcelona, one of the best clubs in the world, is in town.
Three of the reigning European champion's stars and its head coach spent time Tuesday chatting with the crew of the international space station as part of a special-access tour of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake.
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The team presented Pontes, space station flight director Rick Labrode and the space station residents with replica Barça jerseys. NASA presented the team with a photograph of the city of Barcelona from space and a Spanish flag flown in mission STS 121.
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