Mar 17 2011

From The Space Library

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-059 ASTRONAUT SCOTT KELLY AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON --After a five-month stay aboard the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly will be available for live satellite interviews on Tuesday, March 22, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kelly will be available from 6 to 8 a.m. CDT. The interviews will air live on NASA Television. Kelly and his crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 7 (Oct. 8 Baikonur time). During the mission, Kelly served as commander of Expedition 26, the 26th crew to live and work aboard the space station. The trio spent 159 days in space and landed in Kazakhstan on March 16. Aboard the station, the Expedition 25 and 26 crew members worked on more than 150 microgravity experiments in human research; biology and biotechnology; physical and materials sciences; technology development; and Earth and space sciences. Kelly is from Orange, N.J. He has degrees from the State University of New York Maritime College and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He served as a pilot on shuttle mission STS-103 in 1999 and a commander on STS-118 in 2007. The interviews air on NASA TV's Live Interview Media Outlet channel.

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-061 NASA TV TO COVER MESSENGER SPACECRAFT ENTERING MERCURY'S ORBIT

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television and the agency's website will carry live coverage from 8 to 10 p.m. EDT Thursday as the first spacecraft enters Mercury's orbit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the MESSENGER spacecraft, is conducting the webcast from its mission control building in Laurel, Md. NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging, or MESSENGER, is scheduled to enter the planet's orbit at approximately 9 p.m. after conducting more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system for the past 6.6 years.

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