May 12 2011
From The Space Library
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-093 NASA TELEVISION TO COVER NEXT SOYUZ DEPARTURE, ARRIVAL
HOUSTON --NASA Television will cover the return of three International Space Station crew members and the launch of three new station residents in the coming weeks. For the first time, a Soyuz undocking is expected to take place while a space shuttle is docked. Endeavour is set to launch May 16 on the STS-134 mission to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer and continue station outfitting. All Soyuz activities during STS-134 will be incorporated into mission coverage. Expedition 27 Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA Flight Engineer Cady Coleman and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli are scheduled to land in their Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft in southern Kazakhstan at 9:26 p.m. CDT May 23 (8:26 a.m. local time May 24). Two weeks after the Expedition 27 crew lands, Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, NASA Flight Engineer Mike Fossum and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Satoshi Furakawa will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 3:15 p.m. June 7 (2:15 a.m. local time June 8). They will join Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko, NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, who have been aboard the station since April. NASA Television's scheduled coverage includes (all times Central): Monday, May 16 2 p.m. - Video File of the Soyuz TMA-02M crew news conference at Star City, Russia, and visit to Red Square in Moscow Monday, May 23 2:30 p.m. - Soyuz TMA-20 crew farewells and hatch closure (3 p.m.) coverage 5:45 p.m. - Undocking (6:06 p.m.) coverage 8:15 p.m. - Deorbit burn (8:35 p.m.) and landing (9:26 p.m.) coverage Tuesday, May 24 5 a.m. - Video File of landing and post-landing activities 11 a.m. - Video File of the landing and post-landing activities, including post-landing interview and return to Chkalovsky Airfield, Star City, Russia Wednesday, May 25 11 a.m. - Video File of the Soyuz TMA-02M crew departure for Baikonur ceremony at Star City, Russia Friday, June 3 11 a.m. - Video File of the crew activities in Baikonur Sunday, June 5 11 a.m. - Video File of the rocket mating and rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur Monday, June 6 2 p.m. - Video File of the final pre-launch crew news conference and Russian State Commission meeting in Baikonur Tuesday, June 7 1:45 p.m. - Video File of the crew pre-launch activities in Baikonur 2:30 p.m. - Launch (3:15 p.m.) coverage 6 p.m. - Video File of pre-launch, launch and post-launch interviews Thursday, June 9 3:30 p.m. - Docking (4:15 p.m.) coverage, including post-docking news conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia 6:45 p.m. - Hatch opening (7:15 p.m.) and welcoming ceremony coverage 9 p.m. - Video File of docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-094 NASA ANNOUNCES NEWS BRIEFING ON AQUARIUS/SAC-D MISSION
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news briefing on Tuesday, May 17, at 1 p.m. EDT, on the agency's next Earth-observing satellite mission, Aquarius/SAC-D, scheduled to launch on June 9. The briefing will be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Panelists will discuss the international spacecraft mission, a collaboration between NASA and Argentina's space agency, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with participation by Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. CONAE provided the SAC-D spacecraft. The mission's primary instrument, NASA's Aquarius, will make the agency's first space-based global measurements of the salinity of the ocean surface. Salinity, a key missing variable in satellite observations of Earth, links ocean circulation, the global balance of freshwater and climate. Seven other SAC-D instruments, contributed by Argentina, Canada, France and Italy, will collect environmental data for a wide range of applications, including studies of natural hazards, air quality, land processes, and epidemiology. The panelists are: - Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist, NASA Headquarters - Eric Ianson, Aquarius program executive, NASA Headquarters - Gary Lagerloef, Aquarius principal investigator, Earth & Space Research, Seattle - Amit Sen, Aquarius project manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. - Daniel Caruso, Aquarius/SAC-D project manager, CONAE, Buenos Aires The briefing will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters, located at 300 E St. SW, Washington.
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