June 24, 2009

Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0713 fred a brown@nasa gov

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 kelly o humphries@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-114

NASA TO BROADCAST LATEST SPACE STATION TOUR AND EXPERIMENT IN HDTV

WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast a high-definition tour of the International Space Station recorded by the Expedition 20 crew starting at 10 a m EDT on Wednesday, June 24 Also broadcast in HD will be an explanation of a Canadian experiment on the station that examines how humans perceive up and down without gravity as a reference

The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed assessment of each module-to-module hatchway

A five-minute explanation by Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer Bob Thirsk provides an overview of the Bodies In the Space Environment, or BISE, experiment The experiment looks at the relative contributions of internal and external cues that allow humans to orient themselves in the absence of gravity The principal investigator for the BISE experiment is Laurence R Harris, of York University, North York, Ontario, Canada

The NASA Television HD feed (Channel 105) will broadcast the items every hour on the hour, beginning at 10 a m The videos also will be broadcast in standard-definition format on the NASA Television Public and Media Channels VideoFile beginning at 10 a m

NASA TV Downlink Parameters are: Uplink provider = Americom Satellite = AMC 6 Transponder = 17C 72 Degrees West Transmission Format: DVB-S Downlink Frequency: 4040 MHz Polarity: Vertical FEC= 3/4 Data Rate= 36 860 MHz Symbol Rate = 26 665 Ms/s

For NASA TV HD Programming: HD Program = 105 Video PID = 82 AC-3 Audio PID = 238 MPEG-1 Layer II Audio PID =83

For NASA TV streaming video, VideoFile, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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