NASA Astronaut to Help Build Martian Bedroom

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NASA Astronaut to Help Build Martian Bedroom
NASA's Captain Mike Foreman of STS-120 takes a break with the Mission to Mars team on Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls. (Image credit: NASA.)

ANASA shuttle astronaut will hang up his spacesuit for a day Saturday to tryhis hand at interior decorating.

U.S.Navy Capt. Michael Foreman, set to fly to the International Space Station (ISS)aboard NASA's STS-120 shuttle flight, will appear in the television program TradingSpaces: Boys vs. Girls to assist in transforming a typical 10-year-old NewJersey boy's bedroom into a Martian landscape.

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