Jan 19 2012
From The Space Library
RELEASE: 12-023 NASA TV COVERS SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP LAUNCH AND ARRIVAL
HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of the next spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station. Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA and his five crewmates will be standing by as the unpiloted Russian ISS Progress 46 resupply craft launches Wednesday, Jan. 25, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the complex. The new Progress craft is scheduled to launch at 5:06 p.m. CST on Jan. 25 (5:06 a.m. Baikonur time Jan. 26). NASA TV coverage will begin at 4:45 p.m. Two days later, on Friday, Jan. 27, the Progress 46 will automatically dock to the Pirs Docking Compartment at 6:08 p.m. NASA TV coverage of the new Progress' arrival at the station will begin at 5:30 p.m. An older Progress resupply ship currently at the Pirs docking port will undock on Monday, Jan. 23, to make room for the new cargo ship. The undocking of Progress 45 will not be broadcast live
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-011 WALLOPS MEDIA ROUNDTABLE WITH NASA'S SPACE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- Journalists are invited to a roundtable discussion at 11 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Jan. 24, with NASA's Chief Technologist Mason Peck during his visit to the agency's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va. Wallops Flight Facility Director Bill Wrobel will join Peck for the event. They will discuss Wallops' important role in the agency's development of cutting-edge technologies and innovations that will enable NASA's future missions in science, exploration and space operations. Wallops will conduct critical high-altitude balloon and sounding rocket flights for several major space technology projects during the coming years. The center will test inflatable aerodynamic decelerators for safely returning cargo to Earth from the International Space Station and landing large payloads on planetary surfaces. NASA also will launch a small technology secondary payload aboard a commercial rocket from Wallops this year.
