Silver Rockets» buzz lightyear http://silver-rockets.com Celebrating the dreams and realities of spaceflight and the great beyond Wed, 23 May 2012 01:07:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 The Buzz http://silver-rockets.com/2009/09/the-buzz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-buzz http://silver-rockets.com/2009/09/the-buzz/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:21:34 +0000 Danielle Signor http://silver-rockets.com/?p=1238 Disney's Buzz Lightyear stands on the tarmac in front of space shuttle Discovery. Photo credit: NASA

I didn’t realize that Buzz Lightyear had put time in on the ISS, but he came home a week ago, and is eagerly anticipating his ticker tape parade in October:

Also returning aboard space shuttle Discovery was Disney’s space ranger Buzz Lightyear, after spending 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will celebrated in a ticker-tape parade together with his space station crew mates and former Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin on Oct. 2 at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Disney's Buzz Lightyear stands on the tarmac in front of space shuttle Discovery. Photo credit: NASA

And hey, the guy’s been working hard while he was up there.

While on the space station, Buzz supported NASA’s education outreach program — Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, or STEM, by creating a series of fun educational online outreach programs. Following his return, Disney is partnering with NASA to create a new online educational game and an online mission patch competition for school kids across America.

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