Oct 10 2017
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-122 NASA to Televise International Space Station Cargo Ship Launch, Docking
NASA Television will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Russian cargo spacecraft delivering almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the International Space Station beginning at 5:15 a.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12.
Launch of the unpiloted Russian Progress 68 is scheduled for 5:32 a.m. (3:32 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The spacecraft is set to dock to the Pirs Docking Compartment on the Russian segment at 8:56 a.m. Docking comes just three and a half hours, or two orbits of Earth, after launch to demonstrate an expedited capability for potential use on future Russian cargo and crew launches. NASA TV coverage of rendezvous and docking will begin at 8:15 a.m. Progress 68 will remain docked at the station for more than five months before departing in March for its deorbit into Earth’s atmosphere.
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-121 NASA TV to Broadcast Hispanic Heritage Event
NASA will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month at the James Webb Auditorium in the agency’s headquarters in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 12, with a discussion of the contributions of Hispanics to NASA’s mission and the importance of Hispanic representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers.
¡Latinos STEM Up! is open to the public and will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website at 10 a.m. EDT.
Opening remarks will be delivered via video from Dr. Ellen Ochoa, director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the first Hispanic woman in space. The event features a panel moderated by Elvis Cordova, former acting under secretary for the U.S Department of Agriculture, which will discuss increasing Hispanic participation in the STEM fields. The panelists are:
- Dr. Marla Perez Davis, deputy center director, NASA’s Glenn Research Center, Cleveland
- Sandra Cauffman, Earth Science Division deputy director, NASA Headquarters
- Dr. Yaireska M. Collado-Vega, physical scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- Marilé Colón Robles, education outreach coordinator, NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.
- Dr. Carolina Aguirre, director, Reaching Rural STEM Students, University of New Mexico
- Jose Antonio Tijerino, president and CEO, Hispanic Heritage Foundation
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot will deliver closing remarks via recorded video.
¡Latinos STEM Up! is being hosted by NASA’s Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance (HOLA) and the Equal Opportunity and Diversity Management Division (EODM).
MEDIA ADVISORY M17-119 NASA Announces Briefing on Carbon Mission Science Results
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 12, to discuss new research to be published this week on changing global levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The research is based on data from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and other satellites.
NASA launched OCO-2 in 2014 to gather global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the resolution, precision and coverage needed to understand how this important greenhouse gas moves through the Earth system and how it changes over time.
The teleconference panelists will be:
- Michael Freilich, director, Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington
- Annmarie Eldering, OCO-2 deputy project scientist, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California
- Junjie Liu, research scientist, JPL
- Scott Denning, professor of atmospheric science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Visuals to accompany the teleconference will be available shortly before it starts at: https://www.nasa.gov/oco2telecon
To participate by phone, reporters must send an email providing their name, affiliation and telephone number to Dwayne Brown at: dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov by noon Oct. 12. Media and the public also may ask questions during the briefing on Twitter using the hashtag #askNASA.
