Image: Rijkaard Ronaldinho

Description: JSC2006-E-33425 (8 August 2006) --- Members of the European champion soccer team, FC Barcelona, made a special call at 4:10 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 8 to the International Space Station crew. During a visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, the team stopped in the Station (Blue) Flight Control Room in Mission Control to make the call. The FC Barcelona team is scheduled to play an Aug. 9 exhibition game against Club America, one of Mexico's top club teams. Players, coaches and guests of the team visited mission control rooms used for the station and shuttle, and the historic control room used during Apollo missions and lunar landings. They also visited training facilities including full-scale mockups of the station and shuttle.
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