Dec 21 2010
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-171
RETURNED SPACE STATION ASTRONAUTS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
HOUSTON -- After a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, astronauts Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock will be available for live satellite interviews on Tuesday, Dec. 14, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Wheelock will be available from 5 to 6 a.m. CST. Walker will be available from 6:10 to 7 a.m. The interviews will be broadcast live on NASA Television. To arrange an interview, reporters should contact producer Jeremiah Maddix at 281-483-8631 or 281-414-6995 or by e-mail at jeremiah.m.maddix@nasa.gov by 2 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 13. Video b-roll from Walker and Wheelock's mission will air Dec. 14 from 4:30 to 5 a.m. on NASA TV. Wheelock, Walker and their crewmate, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on June 15. During the mission, Wheelock served as commander of Expedition 25 and supported three unplanned spacewalks to replace a faulty pump module. Walker served as a flight engineer for Expedition 25 and was co-pilot of the Soyuz during its launch and landing. The trio spent 163 days in space and landed in Kazakhstan on Nov. 25. During their mission, the crew members worked on more than 120 microgravity experiments in human research, biology and biotechnology, physical and materials sciences, technology development, and Earth and space sciences. The crew also celebrated the station's 10th anniversary of continuous habitation, work and research by international crews on Nov. 2. Wheelock is from Windsor, N.Y. He has degrees from the United States Military Academy at West Point and the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also served as a mission specialist on shuttle mission STS-120 in 2007. Walker is Houston's only native astronaut and holds multiple degrees from Rice University. NASA TV's Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used for the interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 3, transponder 9C, located at 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865.5 MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity. FEC is 3/4, data rate is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404 Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For biographical information about Walker and Wheelock, visit: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/astrobio.html
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RELEASE: 10-140
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND PROFESSORS READY TO ROCK ON WITH NASA
WASHINGTON -- University students and professors from across the country and Puerto Rico will converge on NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this month to learn how to build small experiments that can be launched on sounding rockets. This is part of a week-long workshop, known as RockOn!, that begins June 19. The 80 workshop participants will build standardized experiments that will fly on a NASA Terrier-Orion suborbital sounding rocket set to launch between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m. EDT on June 24. The 35-foot-tall rocket is expected to fly to an altitude of 75 miles. After launch and payload recovery, the participants will conduct preliminary data analysis and discuss their results. In addition to the 7 workshop-built experiments, 11 custom-built, self-contained experiments also will fly on the rocket inside a payload canister known as RockSat. The latter experiments were developed at ten universities that previously had participated in a RockOn! workshop. The workshop is funded by NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. This will be the third year for the workshop. The Space Grant national network includes more than 850 affiliates from universities, colleges, industry, science centers, and state and local agencies. The goal is to support and enhance science and engineering education, and research and public outreach efforts for NASA's aeronautics and space projects. These affiliates belong to one of 52 consortia in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-123
FUTURE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE
HOUSTON -- A multinational crew that will live and work on the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The crew also will answer questions from reporters at participating NASA centers and from those in Europe. NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and her crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev, of the Russian Space Agency, and Paolo Nespoli, of the European Space Agency, will participate in individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone, following the news conference. The crew also will participate in a photo opportunity for reporters at Johnson. U.S. and foreign media representatives planning to attend the briefing must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7. To participate in the round-robin interviews, reporters should contact the Johnson newsroom by 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 13. Coleman, Kondratyev and Nespoli will constitute three of the six crew members for both Expedition 26 and 27. They will launch aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in mid-December. They will join NASA's Scott Kelly, who will command the station, Flight Engineers Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka. Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will launch in a separate Soyuz on Oct. 7 and arrive at the orbiting laboratory Oct. 9. For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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