TUSA, Okla. –<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 students from 12 northeast Oklahoma school districts will meet aerospace professionals during Space Week 2026, with events scheduled Oct. 5-9 in Tulsa, Colcord and Stillwater.<\/p>\n
The week includes school visits, hands-on field trips and a free community event featuring former NASA astronaut John B. Herrington and NASA aerospace engineer Naia Butler-Craig.<\/p>\n
\n Astronaut John Herrington visits Oklahoma students<\/p>\n
Herrington, an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation who was born in Wetumka, is recognized by NASA as the first citizen of a federally recognized tribe to fly in space. He flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station and completed three spacewalks.<\/p>\n
Herrington will visit Patrick Henry Elementary in Tulsa and Colcord Elementary & Middle School on Monday. He will also participate in Tuesday field trips and the free Siegfried Community Night at Discovery Lab in Tulsa.<\/p>\n
\n NASA engineer joins Tulsa, Stillwater field trips<\/p>\n
Butler-Craig, an aerospace engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center, will meet students during Tulsa field trips Wednesday and Stillwater field trips Thursday and Friday.<\/p>\n
The week will also involve Oklahoma pre-K-12 educators trained through the NASA Oklahoma Space Grant Consortium.<\/p>\n
Space Week schedule:<\/p>\n
Oct. 5: School outreach in Tulsa and ColcordOct. 6-7: Field trips at Discovery Lab in TulsaOct. 6, 6-8 p.m.: Free community night at Discovery LabOct. 8-9: Field trips at Stillwater Community Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUSA, Okla. – More than 1,000 students from 12 northeast Oklahoma school districts will meet aerospace professionals during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-871269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}