Date: October 2nd 2008

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NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE
NASA ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE AWARD FOR OXYGEN MASK INVENTION
NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT

Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:32:23 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE

October 1, 2008

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4715

Report #M08-189

NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew Oct 12 and the landing of the current crew Oct 23

NASA's Expedition 18 Commander and Science Officer Mike Fincke, Soyuz Commander and Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, a U S citizen, are scheduled to launch Sunday, Oct 12, at 3:01 a m EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Their Soyuz TMA-13 craft will dock to the station on Thursday, Oct 14 Garriott will fly to the station under an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency

NASA Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff, who has been on the station since June, will remain with Fincke and Lonchakov until the arrival of space shuttle Endeavour on its STS-126 mission, targeted to launch in November NASA astronaut Sandy Magnus will arrive on that flight to replace Chamitoff, who will come home on Endeavour

Expedition 17 and Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko and Garriott will return to Earth Thursday, Oct 23, at about 11:46 p m in their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft now docked to the station Volkov and Kononenko have been aboard the complex since April

From Oct 8-11, NASA TV will broadcast video b-roll of crew rotation activities, including training, pre-launch events in Baikonur, the Oct 10 rollout of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft to the launch pad, and the final pre-launch news conference Oct 11 at noon

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A joint crew news conference with all six crewmembers is scheduled Monday, Oct 20 with a multi-center question and answer capability for media at NASA centers A time for the news conference will be set in the near future A change of command ceremony for the two crews will be broadcast on NASA TV The time for that event also will be set soon

The events to be broadcast on NASA TV's public and media channels include (all times approximate, EDT):

Oct 12, Sunday 1:15 a m - Expedition 18 / spaceflight participant video b-roll of prelaunch activities 2:00 a m - Expedition 18 / spaceflight participant live launch coverage (launch scheduled at 3:01 a m ) 6 a m - Expedition 18 / spaceflight participant postlaunch video file

October 14, Tuesday 4 a m - Expedition 18 / spaceflight participant Soyuz docking to station and post-docking news conference live coverage (docking scheduled for 4:38 a m ) 5:30 a m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant hatch opening to station live coverage (hatch opening scheduled for 6 a m ) 9 a m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant docking & hatch opening video file feed

October 23, Thursday 4:45 p m - 5:30 p m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant farewell & Soyuz hatch closure live coverage (hatch closure scheduled for 5:15 p m ) 8 p m - 8:45 p m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant Soyuz undocking from the station live coverage (undocking scheduled for 8:20 p m ) 10:30 p m - 1:00 a m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant Soyuz deorbit burn and landing in Kazakhstan live coverage (deorbit burn scheduled for 10:56 p m ; landing scheduled for 11:46 p m )

October 24, Friday 3 a m - Expedition 17 / spaceflight participant Soyuz post-landing video file feed

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information on the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:03:18 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE AWARD FOR OXYGEN MASK INVENTION

October 1, 2008

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

Report #J08-012

NASA ASTRONAUTS RECEIVE AWARD FOR OXYGEN MASK INVENTION

HOUSTON Ã‚Â– NASA announced today that astronauts Mark E Kelly and Donald R Pettit are the Federal Laboratory Consortium 2008 Notable Technology Award recipients for their work inventing an oxygen partial pressure sensor

Kelly and PettitÃ‚Â’s invention works by warning crew members when the partial pressure of oxygen in their oxygen masks decreases below a pre-set level An electrochemical sensor provides an electrochemical monitor and tactile warning to the user to prevent hypoxia, which is insufficient oxygen levels in the bloodstream

The two were awarded a U S patent for the method and device in 2006, a Tech Brief award in 2003 and an Inventions and Contributions Board Space Act Award in 2007

Kelly, an experienced naval aviator before joining the NASA astronaut corps, has logged 38 days in space as a space shuttle pilot and commander He has logged more than 5,000 flight hours in more than 50 different aircraft and has more than 375 carrier landings

Pettit flew aboard STS-113 on space shuttle Endeavour and spent five and a half months as the science officer for Expedition 6 on the International Space Station, returning on the Soyuz TMA-1 While on board, he conducted science experiments and logged more than 13 hours performing spacewalks outside the complex

For more information on NASA spinoffs and technology, visit:

http://www nasa gov/topics/technology/index html

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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:46:51 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT

October 1, 2008

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715

Report #C08-059

NASA EXTENDS INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CONTRACT

HOUSTON -- NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept 30, 2010

The action extends the U S On-Orbit Segment Acceptance and Vehicle Sustaining Engineering contract, awarded in January 1995 Work under the contract extension will include completion of delivery and on-orbit acceptance of the U S segment of the station, sustaining engineering of station hardware and software, support of U S hardware and software provided to international partners and participants in the station program, and end-to-end subsystem management for the majority of station systems

The work will be performed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala , and at other domestic and international locations

For information about NASA and its programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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