HSFNEWS Digest - 19 Oct 2011 to 20 Oct 2011 (#2011-122)

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Date: October 20th 2011

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Topics of the day:

NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSEA MISSION (UPDATE)
NASA TELEVISION TO AIR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:07:04 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSEA MISSION (UPDATE)

Oct 19, 2011

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

J D Harrington/Michael Braukus Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241/1979

Report #M11-214

NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERSEA MISSION (UPDATE)

HOUSTON -- Journalists will have the opportunity to cover the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations, or NEEMO, from up close or afar The mission was originally scheduled to start Oct 17, but tropical storm conditions in the area of the undersea laboratory required a delay

Journalists are invited to visit the Mobile Mission Control Center, which supports the underwater crew of the NEEMO mission aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius Undersea Laboratory The laboratory is located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in Key Largo Arrangements for reporters to visit the mobile control center must be made at least one day prior to the visit by contacting NASA's Johnson Space Center Newsroom in Houston on 281-483-5111

On Oct 24, the NEEMO crew will be available for satellite interviews from 3 to 4 p m CDT On Oct 26, astronaut/aquanaut Shannon Walker will conduct interviews during an underwater simulated spacewalk from 1 to 1:30 p m Other interview slots are available on a limited basis with Walker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques and Steven Squyres of Cornell University

To participate in interview opportunities, reporters should contact Lynnette Madison at lynnette b madison@nasa gov, or the Johnson Space Center Newsroom on 281-483-5111, no later than 5 p m Oct 21

The live satellite interviews will air on NASA's Live Interview Media Outlet channel The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by uplink provider Americom It is on satellite AMC3, transponder (9C, located 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865 5 MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity FEC is 3/4, data rate is 6 0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4 3404 Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0 The interviews also will be simulcast on NASA Television

The 2011 NEEMO mission will be the first to simulate humans visiting an asteroid A six-member crew, led by Walker, will spend 13 days beneath the surface in the Aquarius habitat, the world's only underwater laboratory They will test concepts and techniques for asteroid exploration

Other crew members include James Talacek and Nate Bender of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington

In addition, NASA astronauts Stan Love, Richard Arnold and Mike Gernhardt will participate in the mission as pilots of the DeepWorker submersible, a small submarine that will serve as an underwater stand-in for the Space Exploration Vehicle, which may someday be used to explore the surface of an asteroid

For information about the NEEMO 15 mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/neemo

To follow the mission via Twitter, visit:

http://www twitter com/NASA_NEEMO

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:54:56 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA TELEVISION TO AIR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #M11-215

NASA TELEVISION TO AIR NEXT SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast the launch of three new International Space Station residents and the return of three crew members in November

NASA astronaut and Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Russian Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:14 p m CST on Nov 13 (10:14 a m local time on Nov 14)

The new crew will receive a six-day handover from Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum of NASA and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov Expedition 30 begins when the current crew undocks

Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov launched in June and are scheduled to return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 8:25 p m on Nov 21 (8:25 a m local time on Nov 22)

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are scheduled to launch to the station in late December, when they will join Expedition 30 as flight engineers

NASA TV's scheduled coverage includes (all times Central):

Monday, Oct 24 2 p m -- Video file of Soyuz TMA-22 crew news conference in Star City, Russia, and visit to Red Square in Moscow

Monday, Oct 31 11 a m -- Video file from Star City of crew departure for Baikonur, Kazakhstan

Thursday, Nov 10 11 a m -- Video file of crew activities in Baikonur

Friday, Nov 11 11 a m -- Video file of rocket rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur

Saturday, Nov 12 2 p m -- Video file of final prelaunch crew news conference and Russian State Commission meeting in Baikonur

Sunday, Nov 13 8:45 p m -- Video file feed of the crew prelaunch activities in Baikonur 9:30 p m -- Launch coverage (launch scheduled for 10:14 p m ), including launch replays

Monday, Nov 14 1 a m -- Video file of prelaunch, launch and postlaunch interviews

Tuesday, Nov 15 11 p m -- Docking coverage (docking scheduled for 11:37 p m ), followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia 2:30 a m -- Hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (hatch opening scheduled for 2:45 a m ) 4:30 a m -- Video file of docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony

Monday, Nov 21 8 a m -- Replay of change of command ceremony (occurs on Nov 20) 1:15 p m -- Coverage of Soyuz TMA-02M farewells and hatch closure (hatch closure scheduled for 1:45 p m ) 4:30 p m -- Undocking coverage (undocking scheduled for 4:58 p m ) 7 p m -- Deorbit burn (deorbit burn scheduled for 7:31 p m ) and landing (landing scheduled for 8:25 p m ) coverage 11 p m -- Video file of landing and post-landing activities

Tuesday, Nov 22 11 a m -- Video file of landing and post-landing activities including interviews and return to Chkalovsky Airfield near Star City

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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