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Crew Members Speak Live With U.S. Embassies

Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams in a live televised event. Image above: Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Sunita Williams participate in a live televised event. Image credit: NASA TV TO SEE PICTURE GO TO: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html

Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams Wednesday did a televised interactive talk with the U.S. Embassies in Madrid, Spain, and New Delhi, India. Lopez-Alegria, born in Spain, spoke with U.S. Ambassador Eduardo Aquirre, media and school children. Williams, of Indian background, spoke with U.S. Ambassador David C. Mulford and Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space.

Also on Wednesday, Lopez-Alegria and Williams performed a mandatory emergency medical on-board training drill. This is an exercise designed to refresh crew members’ skills in applying advanced cardio life support in an emergency. Lopez-Alegria and Williams performed steps to resolve a simulated medical emergency. The objectives of the exercise include practicing communication and coordination necessary to perform medical emergency procedures, locating appropriate emergency medical components and determining each crew member’s individual method of delivering cardio-pulmonary resuscitation in zero-gravity.