Oct 6 2010
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-127
NASA SETS BRIEFING ABOUT ASSISTANCE TO TRAPPED MINERS IN CHILE
HOUSTON -- A NASA team sent to Chile to aid trapped miners will hold a news conference about their work at the San Jose gold and copper mine near Copiapo at noon CDT, Tuesday, Sept. 7. The conference will be at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and it will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. The participants also will answer questions from reporters at participating NASA centers. For journalists not able to attend at a NASA center, a limited number of phone lines are available by calling 281-483-5111 by 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday. U.S. news media planning to attend the briefing in person must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 10 a.m. Tuesday. Reporters interested in a one-on-one interview must contact the Johnson newsroom by 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. NASA responded to a request from the government of Chile, submitted through the U.S. Department of State, to provide technical advice that might assist the trapped miners. The NASA team of two medical doctors, a psychologist and an engineer arrived in Chile Aug. 31. Dr. Michael Duncan, deputy chief medical officer in the Space Life Sciences Directorate at Johnson, led the team. The other members are physician James Polk and psychologist Albert Holland from Johnson; and Clint Cragg, principal engineer with the NASA Engineering and Safety Center located at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The team will participate in the news conference. Afterward, Duncan will be available for one-on-one interviews. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-130
NASA TV TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF NEXT SOYUZ LANDING, LAUNCH
HOUSTON -- The return to Earth of three International Space Station crew members and the prelaunch activities, launch and docking of the station's newest trio of residents will be broadcast on NASA Television during the next several weeks. After almost six months aboard the orbital laboratory, Expedition 24 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov, NASA Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko are scheduled to land their Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft in southern Kazakhstan on Sept. 23 (Sept. 24 in Kazakhstan). Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Alexander Kaleri, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly and Russian Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka will launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-01M on Oct. 7 (Oct. 8 in Kazakhstan) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will join NASA astronaut and Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock, NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, who have been aboard the station since June 18. The coverage begins with a NASA TV Video File feed at 11 a.m. CDT Sept. 17. The footage will include the prelaunch news conference with Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and their ceremonial visit to lay flowers at the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow. A change of command ceremony in which Skvortsov will hand over command of the station to Wheelock will be conducted at 4:05 p.m. Sept. 22. It will be replayed during NASA TV's International Space Station Update at 10 a.m. Sept. 23 and during landing coverage that evening. The full schedule of the landing, launch and docking coverage that will air on NASA TV's public and media channels is (all times are CDT): Sept. 17, Friday 11 a.m. -- Video File feed of the Expedition 25 prelaunch news conference at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City and tour of Red Square in Moscow Sept. 22, Wednesday 4:05 p.m. -- Expedition 24/25 change of command ceremony Sept. 23, Thursday 4:45 p.m. -- Expedition 24 farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure scheduled at 5:20 p.m.) 8:15 p.m. -- Expedition 24 undocking coverage (undocking scheduled at 8:34 p.m.) 10:30 p.m. -- Expedition 24 deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn scheduled at 11:03 p.m., landing in Kazakhstan scheduled at 11:55 p.m.) Sept. 24, Friday 1 p.m. -- Video File feed of Expedition 24 post-landing activities and interview with Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson Sept. 27, Monday 11 a.m. -- Video File feed of Expedition 25 farewell activities at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Star City (recorded Sept. 25) Oct. 4, Monday 11 a.m. -- Video File feed of Expedition 25 prelaunch activities and Soyuz TMA-01M rocket mating in Baikonur Oct. 5, Tuesday 11 a.m. -- Video File feed of the Expedition 25 Soyuz TMA-01M rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur Oct. 6, Wednesday 4 p.m. -- Video File feed of the Expedition 25 final prelaunch news conference and state commission meeting in Baikonur Oct. 7, Thursday 4:30 p.m. -- Video feed of the Expedition 25 crew final prelaunch activities in Baikonur 5:15 p.m. -- Expedition 25 launch coverage (launch scheduled at 6:10 p.m., followed by launch replays) 9 p.m. -- Video File feed of the Expedition 25 prelaunch activities, launch and post-launch interviews Oct. 9, Saturday 6:30 p.m. -- Expedition 25 docking coverage (docking scheduled at 7:01 p.m. followed by the post-docking news conference) 9:30 p.m. -- Expedition 25 hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch opening scheduled at 10:01 p.m., followed by the welcoming ceremony) Oct. 10, Sunday 12 a.m. -- Video File feed of the Expedition 25 docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
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