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1. HOUSTONS ONLY NATIVE NASA ASTRONAUT TO VISIT CITY HALL
2. NASA ASTRONAUT PIERS SELLERS RETURNS TO GODDARD

Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:07:24 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: HOUSTONS ONLY NATIVE NASA ASTRONAUT TO VISIT CITY HALL

May 3, 2011

Brenda Cabaniss Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-244-8860

Report #JA11-005

HOUSTON�S ONLY NATIVE NASA ASTRONAUT TO VISIT CITY HALL

HOUSTON � After living aboard the International Space Station for six months, Houston�s firstborn and raised astronaut will return two flown mementos to officials at Houston�s City Hall

At 2 p m Tuesday, May 10, NASA astronaut Shannon Walker will stop by the open session of the city council hearing to present Mayor Annise Parker and 14 council members with a City of Houston flag she carried with her in space The brief ceremony also will include the return of a key she flew for the Mayor�s Youth Council The meeting will take place in the council chamber of Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby, Houston

Walker is a 1983 graduate of Westbury Senior High in Houston She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and a Master of Science and a doctorate in space physics from Rice University in 1987, 1992 and 1993, respectively

Selected by NASA in 2004, Walker completed astronaut candidate training in February 2006 In 2007, following assignments in various capacities within the Astronaut Office, Walker began training for a long-duration flight on the International Space Station

On June 15, 2010, Walker and her Expedition 24 crewmates, cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronaut Doug Wheelock, launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft for a long-duration mission aboard the orbiting laboratory As a flight engineer, Walker helped support more than 120 microgravity experiments The mission ended 163 days later with the Soyuz landing in Kazakhstan on Nov 25, 2010

For more about Walker and expeditions to the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 14:53:07 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT PIERS SELLERS RETURNS TO GODDARD

May 3, 2011

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

Edward S Campion Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-0697

Robert J Gutro
Goddard Space Flight Center 301-286-4044

Report #J11-016

NASA ASTRONAUT PIERS SELLERS RETURNS TO GODDARD

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Piers Sellers is moving from the Johnson Space Center in Houston to the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md

Beginning June 6, he will serve as the deputy director of Goddard�s Sciences and Exploration Directorate

"Piers will be greatly missed in our office," said Peggy Whitson, chief of the Astronaut Office "He is a great team player, ready to help in any capacity needed His diverse skills in robotics, spacewalking and his vast knowledge of science, astronomy and engineering were instrumental in helping us building the International Space Station "

Sellers previously worked at Goddard as a researcher from 1982 to 1996 He was selected as an astronaut in 1996 He flew to the International Space Station on STS-112 in 2002, STS-121 in 2006 and STS-132 in 2010 He has logged nearly 35 days in space, including almost 41 hours spacewalking during six excursions

At Goddard, Sellers studied interactions between the biosphere and the atmosphere, and helped construct computer models of the global climate system He also interpreted satellite data and conducted large-scale field experiments in the U S , Canada, Africa and Brazil He served as the first project scientist for the Terra mission from 1991 to 1996

For Seller�s complete astronaut biographical information, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/sellers html

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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