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Live online chat with John Gruener, NASA Flight Systems Engineer

Date: Thursday, October 19, 2006

Time:
9:30 - 10:30 AM Alaska Time
10:30 - 11:30 AM Pacific Time
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Mountain Time
12:30 - 1:30 PM Central Time
1:30 - 2:30 PM Eastern Time

Chat Host John Gruener's Biography:
John Gruener currently serves as a flight systems engineer at NASA's Johnson Space Center. He joined Johnson Space Center in May 1986, working on the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs. After a year and a half, he moved into an area more suited to his interests: the exploration of the Moon and Mars. Since then, he has conducted work in several different capacities: as a rocket scientist designing missions to the Moon and Mars, a space farmer growing of plants in advanced life support systems, and a planetary scientist studying the rocks and soils on Mars.

After graduating from Spring Woods High School in Houston, Texas, Gruener earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Texas. He received his M.S. in Physical Science (with an emphasis in planetary geology) at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.