Aug 22 2011

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-174 NASA TELEVISION TO AIR SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP ARRIVAL

HOUSTON --NASA Television will provide live coverage as a Russian Progress cargo spacecraft arrives at the International Space Station at 9:38 a.m. CDT on Friday, Aug. 26. NASA TV coverage will begin at 9 a.m. The unpiloted Progress 44 spacecraft will automatically dock to the rear port of the station's Zvezda service module. The cargo ship will carry three tons of food, fuel and other supplies for the six crew members, Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko and Flight Engineers Ron Garan, Mike Fossum, Satoshi Furukawa, Alexander Samokutyaev and Sergei Volkov. It will be launched at 8 a.m. (7 p.m. Baikonur time) on Wednesday, Aug. 24, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV will not air the launch live, but will show replays during the regularly scheduled 10 a.m. "ISS Update" program.

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-175 NASA HOSTS NEWS CONFERENCE ON UPCOMING MISSION TO MOON

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT, on Thursday Aug. 25, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Scheduled to launch Sept. 8, GRAIL will help answer longstanding questions about Earth's moon and provide a better understanding of how Earth and other rocky planets in our solar system formed. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters James E. Webb Auditorium, located at 300 E St. SW in Washington. It will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The news conference panelists are: -- Jim Green, director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington -- Maria Zuber, GRAIL principal investigator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge -- David Lehman, GRAIL project manager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. -- Leesa Hubbard, teacher in residence, Sally Ride Sciences, San Diego.

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