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April 11, 2006

Perry students meet the astronaut from undersea / Photo

Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman
NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, who grew up in Massachusetts, speaks to students at Oliver Hazard Perry Middle School in Providence.

PROVIDENCE -- Navy Cmdr. Stephen G. Bowen is hardly your typical astronaut. For starters, he has spent most of his career in a submarine, and he has never been up in space.

But, with his boyish good looks and winsome smile, he looks every inch the astronaut.

No question was too silly or too personal today for Bowen, who visited Perry Middle School in Providence, the state's only NASA Explorer School.

Through Perry's partnership with NASA, students will have access to thousands of restricted Web sites and top scientists from NASA and the Goddard Space Flight Center, in addition to field trips. Each grade will also incorporate NASA experiments into its curriculum.

-- Journal staff writer Linda Borg

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