LAKE PLACID, N.Y— On Tuesday, February 17, 2009, the students and teachers of Lake Placid Elementary and Middle schools will have the unique opportunity to hear Scott Parazynski, an astronaut, avid mountaineer, and former United States Development Luge Team athlete, talk about his life experiences. Additionally, Scott will attend a press conference at the USA [...]

An astronaut who has travelled 23 million miles outside the earth’s atmosphere touched down at an Oxford primary school. Dr Scott Parazynski, from Arkansas in the United States, spent an hour and a half with pupils from St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School in Headley Way, Headington. The NASA astronaut has spent more than eight weeks [...]