HSFNEWS Digest - 19 Apr 2012 to 20 Apr 2012 (#2012-37)

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Date: April 20th 2012

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COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PRESENTS NASA SPACE COLONIZATION RESEARCH

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:50:36 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

April 19, 2012

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M12-073

COVERAGE SET FOR NEXT SOYUZ SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

HOUSTON -- Over the next several weeks, NASA Television will provide coverage of activities surrounding the upcoming International Space Station crew rotation Coverage will include departure of three crew members now living aboard the space station It also will include pre-launch activities, launch and arrival of three new residents

Beginning April 23, NASA TV video files will document Expedition 31 crew training activities with Flight Engineer Joseph Acaba of NASA and Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia NASA TV also will broadcast the crew's news conference and ceremonial visit to Red Square in Moscow on April 25

NASA TV will broadcast the change of command ceremony aboard the station at 2 p m CDT on April 25 Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank of NASA will hand over command to Expedition 31 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos

On April 27, Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin will depart the station and Expedition 31 will begin aboard the complex The departing trio will return to Earth aboard their Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft, completing a five-and-a-half-month mission

Don Pettit of NASA, Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency and Kononenko, who have been on the station since late December 2011, will remain aboard until July 1

On May 14, Acaba, Padalka and Revin will launch in the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan They will arrive at the station on May 16 to join Pettit, Kononenko and Kuipers and return the crew size to six

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

Monday, April 23 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew qualification training simulation runs in Star City, Russia

Tuesday, April 24 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew qualification training simulation runs in Star City

Wednesday, April 25 1 p m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew news conference in Star City and visit to Red Square in Moscow 2 p m - Live Expedition 30/31 change of command ceremony

Thursday, April 26 11:45 p m - Live Soyuz TMA-22 crew farewell and hatch-closure coverage (hatch closure scheduled at 12 a m on April 27)

Friday, April 27 3 a m - Live Soyuz TMA-22 undocking coverage (undocking scheduled at 3:18 a m ) 5:30 a m - Live Soyuz TMA-22 deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit burn scheduled at 5:49 a m , landing scheduled at 6:45 a m ) 8 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-22 landing and post-landing activities 6 p m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-22 landing and post-landing activities, including an interview with Burbank and the return of Shkaplerov and Ivanishin to Chkalovsky Airfield near Star City

Wednesday, May 2 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew departure activities for Baikonur, Kazakhstan from Star City

Thursday, May 10 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew activities in Baikonur

Friday, May 11 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M crew activities in Baikonur

Sunday, May 13 12 p m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M rocket mating and rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur

Monday, May 14 11 a m - Video file of the Soyuz TMA-04M final pre-launch crew news conference and Russian State Commission meeting in Baikonur 9 p m - Live Soyuz TMA-04M launch coverage (launch scheduled at 10:01p m ), including pre-launch activities and launch replays

Tuesday, May 15 12 a m - Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M pre-launch and launch video b-roll and post-launch interviews

Wednesday, May 16 11:00 p m - Live Soyuz TMA-04M docking coverage (docking scheduled at 11:38 p m ), followed by the post-docking news conference from Mission Control in Korolev, Russia

Thursday, May 17 2:00 a m - Live Soyuz TMA-04M hatch opening and welcoming ceremony (ceremony scheduled at 2:35 a m ) 4 a m - Video file of Soyuz TMA-04M docking, hatch opening and welcoming ceremony

For NASA TV downlink, schedule updates 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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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:56:55 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PRESENTS NASA SPACE COLONIZATION RESEARCH

April 19, 2012

Rachel Kraft/Heather L Ogletree Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111/281-244-6957

Report #JE12-001

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO PRESENTS NASA SPACE COLONIZATION RESEARCH

HOUSTON ï¿½ The University of Idaho, in coordination with NASA, is hosting a panel on the research it has done on alternative energy storage capability and how it can be used on Earth and in future space colonization May 2 at the universityï¿½s main campus in Moscow

Joe Law, Ph D , and a team of four student interns will discuss high-speed flywheel designs that could provide safe, reliable and convenient energy storage for intermittent energy generation technologies, such as solar and wind, from 6 to 7:30 p m MDT in TLC031 auditorium Seating is limited

Law, with the guidance of NASA Glenn Research Center Technical Monitor Ray Beach, began the second phase of his research last September

Flywheel energy storage works by accelerating a rotor, or flywheel, to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy

The panel will discuss its advancements in flywheel technology, the future of the project, partnerships created through the grant at the university and the potential terrestrial applications of the research Interns finishing their senior design project also will present on their contributions to the project

The University of Idaho is one of five universities nationwide awarded $250,000 through NASAï¿½s Ralph Steckler Space Grant Colonization Research and Technology Development Opportunity Phase II Grant money is being used for research and technology development activities that support a sustained human presence in space, increase understanding of the moon's environment and develop basic infrastructure for future space colonies

Members of the media must reserve their seating by April 27 with either Heather L Ogletree at heather l ogletree@nasa gov or Becky Highfill at bhighfil@uidaho edu

In addition to the Steckler presentation, a representative from NASA Johnson Space Centerï¿½s Office of Education will be available after the presentation to answer questions regarding NASA internship opportunities

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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