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1. NASA SETS PREVIEW BRIEFING, TV SCHEDULE FOR STATION SPACEWALKS
2. NASA'S "ASTRO_MIKE" SET FOR TV INTERVIEWS, WEB APPEARANCE JUNE 3

Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:38:05 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS PREVIEW BRIEFING, TV SCHEDULE FOR STATION SPACEWALKS

June 1, 2009

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #M09-100

NASA SETS PREVIEW BRIEFING, TV SCHEDULE FOR STATION SPACEWALKS

HOUSTON -- Two residents of the International Space Station will conduct a pair of spacewalks in the coming weeks to prepare the Russian segment of the station for future assembly work The activities will be broadcast live on NASA Television and previewed in a briefing originating from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, June 4, at 8:30 a m CDT

The briefing participants are:

• Courtenay McMillan, Expedition 20 lead flight director, Johnson Space Center
• David Korth, Expedition 20 EVA flight director, Johnson Space Center

Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Barratt will don Russian spacesuits June 5 for a spacewalk out of the Pirs docking compartment's airlock NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 1:15 a m Barratt and Padalka are expected to exit the airlock to begin their exterior work at 1:45 a m The spacewalk will prepare Pirs for the arrival of a new Russian module called the Mini-Research Module 2, or MRM2, which will be launched later this year on a Russian booster The MRM2 will serve as an additional docking port for Russian vehicles The spacewalk is planned to last five and a half hours

On June 10, Padalka and Barratt will again don Russian suits and depressurize the transfer compartment between the Zvezda service module and the Zarya module They will perform a one-hour interior spacewalk that will set the stage for the MRM2's launch and automated linkup Television of the internal spacewalk is not expected, but NASA TV will broadcast live commentary beginning about 1:15 a m The internal depressurization of the station's Russian transfer compartment for Padalka and Barratt is expected to begin about 1:45 a m

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 16:44:55 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA'S "ASTRO_MIKE" SET FOR TV INTERVIEWS, WEB APPEARANCE JUNE 3

May 29, 2009

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

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

Report #M09-099

NASA'S "ASTRO_MIKE" SET FOR TV INTERVIEWS, WEB APPEARANCE JUNE 3

Massimino will make an interactive Web appearance and answer questions from the public via Twitter from 3 to 4 p m CDT He will be available for media interviews from 4 to 5:30 p m To participate, reporters should contact NASA's Johnson Space Center's newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p m , June 2 Both the Web appearance and media interviews will be broadcast live on NASA Television

Massimino is known as Astro_Mike to more than 350,000 people who followed his STS-125 spaceflight on Twitter Atlantis' nearly 13-day mission of almost 5 3 million miles rejuvenated Hubble with state-of-the-art science instruments designed to improve the telescope's discovery capabilities by as much as 70 times The mission also extended Hubble's lifetime through at least 2014 During his flight, Massimino, a New York native, performed two spacewalks

Massimino will take questions in real time exclusively from his Twitter followers during the hour-long session His followers should tweet questions that he will answer live on NASA TV and Ustream com To follow Massimino's twitter updates and submit questions, visit:

In addition to being broadcast and streamed to the Web on NASA TV, the Internet session and interviews also may be viewed live at:

http://www ustream tv/NASA2Explore

The commander of the next space shuttle mission, astronaut Mark Polansky, also is providing insights on his upcoming flight via Twitter and taking video questions that he will answer in a special session from space during his flight To follow Polansky and submit questions, visit:

http://www twitter com/Astro_127

Follow NASA mission activities on Twitter @NASA, and for a complete list of all agency missions on Twitter, visit:

http://www nasa gov/collaborate

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and to view streaming video, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more on NASA and its programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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