The joined crews of shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station soon will be fielding a call from former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, who is touring NASA's Johnson Space Center today and will be dropping by the Mission Control Center.
The call is scheduled to take place at 12:43 p.m. EDT.
Bush was serving as vice president when then-President Ronald Reagan in 1984 announced plans to build Space Station Freedom "within a decade." He has been a supporter of NASA for many years.
"We must have a manned space station; a vigorous, safe space shuttle program; and more commercial development in space. The space program should always go 'full throttle up.' And that's not just our ambition; it's our destiny," Bush, the 41st to president to sit in the Oval Office, said in his 1991 State of the Union address.
You can watch the presidential call here in The Flame Trench. Simply click the link below the image above to launch our NASA TV viewer and round-the-clock coverage of STS-120, and refresh this page periodically for updates.
Times for all major mission events is in latest version of the NASA TV schedule -- Rev J -- is here: tvsked_revj.pdf.
Note that the astronauts will discuss the plan for spacewalking repair work just after 1 p.m. EDT, and that the Flight Day 10 Mission Status Briefing is slated for 2 p.m. EDT.
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