Mar 5 2012
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-035 SPACE STATION CREW TO TALK WITH STUDENTS IN SILICON VALLEY
HOUSTON -- News media representatives are invited to a live interactive event with students and the crew aboard the International Space Station as part of Destination Station activities during the month of March. The event takes place March 7 at The Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif. Destination Station is NASA's national awareness campaign to promote space station research opportunities, educate the public about station activities, and communicate the current and potential future impacts of the station on everyday life. The event begins at 10 a.m. PST. Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the space station will speak with students visiting the museum during the downlink portion of the event, which will be broadcast live on NASA Television beginning at 10:20 a.m. Journalists who would like to attend should contact Roqua Montez at 408-795-6225. The downlink is one of several events planned March 1-12 to showcase the agency's newest multimedia exhibit, "Destination Station," which is free with admission to The Tech Museum. The exhibit is open to the public through April 15.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-036 NASA HOSTS TELECONFERENCE ON UPCOMING LAUNCH OF FIVE ROCKETS
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 7, to discuss the upcoming launch of five rockets in slightly more than five minutes from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket launches will be visible from most of the local coastline. The launch window begins March 14 and runs through April 4. The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) mission will gather data to help scientists better understand the high-altitude jet stream winds located 60-65 miles above Earth's surface. This region can cause electrical turbulence adversely affecting satellite and radio communications. The experiment will use a chemical tracer released from each rocket to help observe the winds. The tracers may be visible to the public along the mid-Atlantic region and possibly the northeastern United States.
MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-037 NASA HOLDS BRIEFINGS TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION EXPEDITIONS
HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold two briefings Tuesday, March 20, to preview the upcoming International Space Station Expedition 32 and 33 missions. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefings live. At 11 a.m. CDT, the International Space Station Program and Science Overview Briefing will cover mission priorities and objectives, which include hundreds of research experiments, a Russian spacewalk, international and commercial cargo deliveries to the complex, and a commercial cargo demonstration flight. The briefing participants include: -- Michael Suffredini, International Space Station Program manager -- Dina Contella, Expedition 32 lead flight director -- Tara Ruttley, associate International Space Station Program scientist At 1 p.m., Expedition 32/33 crew members Sunita Williams of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency will discuss their mission. They are set to launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft July 15 and return to Earth in November. Williams, Hoshide and Malenchenko are three of the six crew members comprising Expeditions 32 and 33. When they arrive at the station, they will join NASA astronaut Joseph Acaba, and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin.
