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The space shuttle Discovery is currently in orbit\/at the space station. The pilot of that shuttle for this mission is one Bill Oefelein<\/a>, who is officially the first Alaskan to go into space. Whoo! Now the uber cool thing about that is that it’s awesome for the local schools to follow one of our own as he does things that most kids have dreamed of doing at one point or another. The Challenger Learning Center of Alaska<\/a> has teamed up with NASA and other folks to have the first ever tele-conferences with schools in Alaska. Exciting stuff right?<\/p>\nWell, the Pup’s school was one that was chosen to have kids sign up and be part of the teleconference on December 20. Of all the kids that signed up, The Pup – MY PUP – was chosen to be a part of the conference! The child is BEYOND excited! She’s been totally into this whole Alaskan In Space thing, so much so that EVERY TIME there’s a little blurb on any tv station we have to let her watch the whole thing before switching channels. It’s cute, really. So she’s a little<\/em><\/strong> excited. (hah!)<\/p>\n Me too, really, even if it means I have to be up and moving and out the door and to the Challenger Center by 9:30 am for the 10am tele-conference. I dunno if they’ll show it anywhere else but here? But if they do, and you see a little blond haired bouncy gap-toothed beauty trying her best to take up ALL THE TIME of the tele-conference on the 20th? Most likely, she’s my pup. Heh.<\/p>\n