HSFNEWS Digest - 25 May 2011 to 26 May 2011 (#2011-62)

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Date: May 26th 2011

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NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS
STS-134 MCC Status Report #19
STS-134 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION AUDIO AND VIDEO AVAILABLE ONLINE

Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:57:48 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS

May 25, 2011

Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Stephanie Schierholz Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #M11-102

NASA SETS NEWS CONFERENCE WITH SHUTTLE AND SPACE STATION CREWS

HOUSTON -- The nine crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station will hold a news conference starting at 4:42 a m CDT on Thursday, May 26 Reporters may ask questions in person from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space Center in Florida and agency headquarters in Washington

To participate, U S journalists must call the public affairs office at one of the three venues by 4 p m on Wednesday, May 25 Reporters at Johnson, not already credentialed for the STS-134 mission, must request access badges by May 25 Reporters must be in place at least 20 minutes before the news conference

Participating crew members will be STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot Greg Johnson, Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff; Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko, Flight Engineers Ron Garan and Alexander Samokutyaev

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 40-minute news conference Part of the conference will be for European Space Agency media outlets with live interpretation NASA TV will replay the interviews at 9:30 a m

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

Endeavour's mission includes four spacewalks and delivery of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and spare parts to the station

For more information about the mission and crews, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:32:22 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 MCC Status Report #19

STS-134 Report #19 1:30 p m CDT Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ The International Space Stationï¿½s Canadarm2 is closer to having a new base of operation, giving it access to much of the orbiting laboratoryï¿½s Russian segment

Endeavour Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke installed a power and data grapple fixture on the Russian Zarya module during a 6-hour, 54-minute spacewalk early Wednesday

The arm can ï¿½inchwormï¿½ its way to the new base by grasping it and then releasing the hand holding the old base to become the new end effector A cable to provide power to that new operating base is on the to-do list for the fourth spacewalk of the mission

The spacewalkers also installed a video signal converter on Zarya and ran power cables from the U S segment to Zarya That provides a backup for transmission of power from the solar arrays to the Russian segment

Feustel and Fincke completed a job started on the flightï¿½s first spacewalk, finishing hookup of an external wireless communications system antenna The work was postponed because of a malfunction of one suitï¿½s carbon dioxide gauge that caused the Friday spacewalk to be cut short

They took photos of some of their handiwork and of Zarya thrusters, and some infrared video of an experiment involving coatings with variable thermal control qualities

Mission Specialist Greg Chamitoff was their intravehicular officer and astronaut Steve Swanson served as spacewalk capcom in the station flight control room Endeavour Commander Mark Kelly did photo and video documentation

Feustel and Fincke used a new procedure to prepare astronauts for spacewalks They breathed oxygen for an hour, then put on spacesuits and did ï¿½light exerciseï¿½ for 50 minutes, standing and doing slow intermittent movements The procedure avoids the overnight stay in the Quest airlock that had become standard

The Wednesday spacewalk ended at 7:37 a m CDT, when repressurization of the airlock began It was the sixth for Feustel and the eighth for Fincke It was the 247th U S spacewalk

The spacewalk brought the total time spent for station assembly construction and maintenance to 995 hours and 13 minutes during 158 spacewalks The missionï¿½s fourth spacewalk, Friday morning, is expected to break the 1,000-hour mark It will also be the last spacewalk by space shuttle crew members A spacewalk during the programï¿½s final mission, STS-135, is to be conducted by space station residents

In other activities, Pilot Greg Johnson and Mission Specialist Roberto Vittori spent much of their day stowing equipment and supplies Station Flight Engineer Ron Garan helped out with post-spacewalk tasks

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup or earlier if warranted

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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:55:40 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-134 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION AUDIO AND VIDEO AVAILABLE ONLINE

May 25, 2011

Kylie Clem Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-101

STS-134 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION AUDIO AND VIDEO AVAILABLE ONLINE

WASHINGTON -- NASA has broadcast-quality audio and video clips from the ongoing STS-134 space shuttle and other missions available online through the Internet Archive website

The agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston is digitizing, cataloging and archiving audio files for news media use These files include an entire calendar day's conversation between the Mission Control Center and the crews aboard the shuttle and International Space Station, clips of wake up calls and news briefings The STS-134 audio files are available at: http://www archive org/details/STS-134

Audio from past missions, including Apollo flights, are being added to the collection For those clips, visit: http://www archive org/details/nasaaudiocollection

Videos of short, daily highlights and other features also are available To access the latest STS-134 video files, click the "This Just In (more)" link at:

http://www archive org/details/johnsonspacecentervideocollection

NASA posts still images and video from the shuttle missions at:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

Mission images and video also are available in the human spaceflight gallery at:

http://spaceflight nasa gov/gallery/index html

Journalists can submit other multimedia requests to Johnson's Media Resource Center at 281-483-5111 or by sending an e-mail to

jsc-medresce@mail nasa gov

For additional NASA multimedia resources, visit:

http://www nasa gov/multimedia

For information about STS-134 and other shuttle missions, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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