Subject: April Evans and Bob Linden on the Next VEGAN WORLD RADIO August 4,  2010 on KPFT 90.1 FM

episode no. 106 :: first broadcast on 4 august 2010 animal activist and funnyman Bob Linden of "Go Vegan Radio" and April Evans, resigned from NASA over animal abuse After frustrated attempts to halt NASA's cruel irradiation experiments on monkeys, chief aerospace engineer of the  International Space Station project, April Evans resigned in dismay rather than break a thirty year peace of not using primates in experimentation. April will explain her shock upon first learning of these experiments and her new-found resolve to see an international treaty that would ban primate experiments for the purpose of space exploration.   Also media animal activist pioneer, Bob Linden of goveganradio.com  will share the highlights of his vegan Earth-Day, PLANET-FEST celebration in California, the historic Ringling Brothers  Circus protest attended by 300 in Los Angeles, and his unlawful arrest at the last Fur Free Friday  demonstration in Beverly Hills.  All this and more on this episode of VEGAN WORLD RADIO. hosted by Jerrilyn  Visit the  Events Calendar  of    The Vegan Society of PEACE  for many local happenings in Houston... Visit www.veganworldradio.org  and  FACEBOOK/Vegan-World-Radio write info@veganworldradio.org Get episodes and updates in your Twitter stream > twitter.com/veganworldradio Listen and embed complete episodes from Youtube > youtube.com/harthouston

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July 30, 2010

Subject: NASA ENGINEER RESIGNS OVER MONKEY RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

For Immediate Release:

July 30, 2010

Contact:

Justin Goodman 860-882-2492; JustinG@peta.org

Robbyn Brooks 202-483-7382, ext. 2202; RobbynB@peta.org

NASA ENGINEER RESIGNS OVER MONKEY RADIATION EXPERIMENTS

Cruel Test 'Lacks Scientific Merit,' Says Spaceflight Program Veteran

Houston � An award-winning NASA aerospace engineer�whose childhood dream was to work for the space agency� has resigned in protest over NASA's planned radiation experiments on monkeys. April Evans, a NASA Space Flight Awareness Honoree and nine-year veteran of the U.S. human spaceflight program, resigned after learning that NASA plans to spend $1.75 million to have up to 30 caged squirrel monkeys subjected to dangerous levels of radiation in experiments to be conducted at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Harvard's McLean Hospital. Wrote Evans in her letter of resignation, "I have concerns regarding the physical and psychological damage imposed by NASA on highly social and intelligent life forms, such as primates, unable to give their consent." Evans, who had been working on the development of the International Space Station as a team leader, also stated that the test "lacks scientific merit." Evans�along with many of her colleagues�learned about the experiments during a PETA protest at Johnson Space Center.

"NASA's reliance on cruel and crude radiation tests on monkeys is as absurd as trying to use a Wright Brothers airplane to go to the moon," says PETA Vice President of Laboratory Investigations Kathy Guillermo. "NASA can ill afford to lose gifted people like April Evans, who has put her lifelong dream on the line to speak out against animal abuse and backward-looking science."

In the experiments, monkeys would be blasted with a harmful dose of ionizing radiation. As a result, the animals would likely suffer from brain damage, cancerous tumors, blindness, and a loss of motor control. Following the radiation exposure, these highly intelligent and social animals would spend the rest of their lives in a laboratory, where they would be isolated in cages and subjected to years of behavioral experiments.

Evans encouraged NASA to develop better space radiation shielding to protect astronauts instead of tormenting animals. Her position is in line with that ofthe European Space Agency, which has rejected the use of cruel experiments on primates.

April Evans is available for interviews, and her letter of resignation is available upon request. For more information, please visit  PETA.org/NASA.