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1. NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN
2. NASA KICKS OFF APPLICATION PROCESS FOR NEW ASTRONAUTS

Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:05:45 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN

Nov 13, 2011

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

Stephanie L Schierholz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #H11-381

NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS LAUNCH FROM KAZAKHSTAN

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin launched to the International Space Station at 11:14 p m EST Sunday (10:14 a m Kazakhstan time, Monday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are scheduled to dock their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft with their new home at 11:33 p m Tuesday, Nov 15, and join Expedition 29 Commander Mike Fossum of NASA and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov Fossum will hand over command of the station to the new crew within four days

On Tuesday, coverage of the Soyuz docking will begin on NASA Television at 11 p m NASA TV coverage of the hatches opening and the welcoming ceremony aboard the orbiting laboratory will begin at 1:30 a m Wednesday

Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov launched in June and are scheduled to return to Earth in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft at 8:24 p m Nov 21 (8:24 a m Kazakhstan time on Nov 22) Expedition 30 begins when the current crew undocks, leaving Burbank in command A formal change of command ceremony is planned for Nov 20 and will be aired on NASA TV during a video file Nov 21 at 8 a m

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers are scheduled to launch to the station Dec 21, when they will join Expedition 30 as flight engineers

The six crew members will be busy with dozens of experiments during their time aboard the station They also will welcome a new era of commercial resupply services from the United States Expedition 30 is expected to greet the arrival of Dragon, a commercial resupply ship being built by SpaceX of Hawthorne, Calif Dragon will perform a test flight and rendezvous with the station, soon followed by Cygnus (scheduled for flight during Expedition 31), another commercial resupply ship being built by Orbital Sciences Corporation of Dulles, Va

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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

http://www nasa gov/station

To follow Twitter updates from Expedition 28-29 crew member Fossum, visit:

http://twitter com/astro_aggie

To follow Twitter updates from Expedition 29-30 crew member Burbank, visit:

http://twitter com/AstroCoastie

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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:08:20 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA KICKS OFF APPLICATION PROCESS FOR NEW ASTRONAUTS

Nov 14, 2011

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-234

NASA KICKS OFF APPLICATION PROCESS FOR NEW ASTRONAUTS

WASHINGTON -- News media representatives are invited to attend a public announcement of NASA's process for selecting its next class of astronauts The event starts at 1 p m EST on Tuesday, Nov 15, in the Webb auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the event live

NASA Administrator Charles F Bolden, Assistant Administrator for Human Capital Jeri Buchholz, Flight Crew Operations Director Janet Kavandi and five members of the recently graduated 2009 astronaut class will participate in the announcement They are Serena Aunon, Kjell Lindgren, Kathleen Rubins, Scott Tingle and Mark Vande Hei

NASA will recruit its next astronaut class through the federal government's USAJobs gov website

The class of 2009 was the first astronaut class to graduate in a new era of space flight following the final mission of the space shuttle A new fleet of human spacecraft is in development by commercial companies to deliver crews to the International Space Station NASA also is developing spacecraft to send humans on missions of exploration far away from our planet

These new astronauts will advance research aboard the space station to benefit life on Earth and develop the knowledge and skills needed for longer flights to explore the solar system

For biographical information and other astronaut information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/astronauts

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For more information about NASA's next generation of spacecraft, visit:

http://www nasa gov/exploration

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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