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1. SPACE STATION CREW LANDS IN SOYUZ AFTER SUCCESSFUL MISSION
2. NASA ASTRONAUT AND NEW YORKER SET FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS

Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:52:45 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: SPACE STATION CREW LANDS IN SOYUZ AFTER SUCCESSFUL MISSION

April 8, 2009

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

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #H09-081

SPACE STATION CREW LANDS IN SOYUZ AFTER SUCCESSFUL MISSION

HOUSTON -- Two members of the 18th crew to live and work aboard the International Space Station and a spaceflight participant returned to Earth at 2:16 a m CDT Wednesday NASA astronaut Mike Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi safely landed their Soyuz spacecraft in the steppes of southern Kazakhstan

The Expedition 18 crew members undocked their Soyuz from the station at 10:55 p m April 7 The deorbit burn to slow the Soyuz and begin its descent toward Earth began at 1:24 a m April 8 The landing was moved to a more southerly landing site because of poor landing conditions at the original site

Fincke commanded the Expedition 18 mission, which saw the station go to full power and begin water supply recycling He spent 178 days in orbit on this flight and has accumulated a full year in space during his career Launching to the station on Oct 12, 2008, he also became the first American to fly to and from the space station twice aboard a Russian Soyuz Fincke served almost 188 days as a flight engineer on the Expedition 9 crew, which launched April 18, 2004, and returned to Earth on Oct 23, 2004

Lonchakov completed his first long-duration spaceflight He spent nearly 12 days aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 2001 He spent nearly 11 days in space in 2002, launching aboard one Soyuz craft and landing in another while carrying different crews to the space station and back With this mission, he has accumulated a total of more than 200 days in space

Simonyi, an American, spent 11 days on the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency He is the only spaceflight participant to visit the station twice

The Expedition 18 crew worked with a variety of experiments, including human life sciences, physical sciences and Earth observation Many of the experiments are designed to gather information about the effects of long-duration spaceflight on the human body, which will help with planning future missions to the moon and beyond Other experiments involved practical solutions to extended mission challenges such as repairing electrical components and fighting fire in microgravity

Before undocking, Fincke and Lonchakov bid farewell to the new station crew, Expedition 19 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Barratt, who launched to the station on a Soyuz March 26 Remaining on the station with Padalka and Barratt as an Expedition 19 crew member is Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata Wakata launched to the orbiting laboratory on space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission on March 15

The Expedition 19 crew will be joined in orbit by Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European Space Agency astronaut Frank De Winne and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk in May, inaugurating the station's first six-person crew It also will be the first time that crew members from all five International Space Station partners will be living aboard at the same time

For information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:12:15 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT AND NEW YORKER SET FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS

April 8, 2009

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #M09-058

NASA ASTRONAUT AND NEW YORKER SET FOR SATELLITE INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, a native of Franklin Square, N Y , will be available for live interviews via satellite from 8 a m to 10 a m CDT on Monday, April 13 Massimino is training to fly on space shuttle Atlantis' mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope Atlantis is targeted to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 12

To participate, media should contact NASA's Johnson Space Center newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 1 p m on Friday, April 10

Mission Specialist Massimino is making his second visit to Hubble He is one of seven astronauts who will fly on the space shuttle's fifth and final servicing mission to Hubble The 11-day flight will include five spacewalks to make repairs and upgrades to the telescope, extending its life into the next decade

Massimino has been using Twitter to provide a unique, behind the scenes peek at the last weeks of his training His Twitter username is Astro_Mike (@Astro_Mike)

Along with Massimino, the crew of Atlantis includes Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Gregory C Johnson and Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Michael Good, John Grunsfeld and Megan McArthur

To follow Massimino's Twitter, visit: http://twitter com/Astro_Mike

For information about the STS-125 mission and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 8 Apr 2009 to 9 Apr 2009 (#2009-37)

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