HSFNEWS Digest - 5 Jun 2012 to 7 Jun 2012 (#2012-58)

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Date: June 6th 2012

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Topics of the day:

NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEEMO UNDERSEA MISSION
NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TO WOMEN IN MONTANA
NASA ASTRONAUT TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ALMA MATER

Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:29:37 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEEMO UNDERSEA MISSION

June 06, 2012

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M12-107

NASA SETS MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEEMO UNDERSEA MISSION

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut and commander for the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO), Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, will be available for live satellite interviews while performing a simulated spacewalk under water The interviews will take place between 8:45 and 9:45 a m EDT June 15 NASA will also host a media day June 21 in Key Largo, Fla

NEEMO sends groups of NASA employees and contractors to live for 12 days, 63 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius lab The laboratory is located in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in Key Largo For NASA, Aquarius provides a convincing analog to space exploration, and NEEMO crew members experience some of the same tasks and challenges under water as they would in space

This year's NEEMO expedition begins June 11 and will simulate a mission to an asteroid The mission will focus on three areas -- communication delays, restraint and translation techniques and optimum crew size Metcalf-Lindenburger will be joined by European Space Agency astronaut Timothy Peake; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Kimiya Yui; and Steven W Squyres, Goldwin Smith professor of astronomy at Cornell University and chairman of the NASA Advisory Council Squyres also was a member of NEEMO 15

Journalists are invited to a media day where they will have the opportunity to tour the Mobile Mission Control Center, interview scientists and engineers involved in the mission and take part in a remote news conference with the NEEMO crew members who will be aboard Aquarius

The NASA Live Interview Media Service (LIMS) satellite will be used for the underwater interviews The NASA producer will provide confirmed clients with LIMS satellite parameters

The interviews also will be simulcast on NASA Television, which can be viewed by those not participating

To request a slot in the underwater interviews with Metcalf-Lindenburger or to participate in the media day activities, reporters must contact Brandi Dean at brandi k dean@nasa gov by 5 p m CDT (6 p m EDT) on Wednesday, June 13

The NEEMO mission is sponsored by NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Program

For more information about NEEMO and the crew, and links to follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter, visit:

http://www nasa gov/neemo

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:33:38 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TO WOMEN IN MONTANA

June 6, 2012

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

Report #JA12-016

NASA ASTRONAUT TALKS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TO WOMEN IN MONTANA

HOUSTON ï¿½ NASA astronaut and retired U S Air Force Col Catherine "Cady" Coleman will participate in several events at the Exploration Works Museum in Helena, Mont , June 11-12 The events, located at 995 Carousel Way, are open to the media

Coleman will begin her visit on June 11, serving as the keynote speaker for the Women and Scientists Luncheon at 11:30 a m MDT The event will host women in engineering and science fields as well as middle and high school girls interested in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields

At 5 p m , the museum will host the grand opening of the NASA exhibit ï¿½Women in Aerospace ï¿½ Following the opening, Coleman will discuss ï¿½Living on the ISSï¿½ during the third annual Distinguished Space Speakerï¿½s series The 7 p m presentation is free of charge and open to the public It will be followed by a brief question-and-answer period

The spaceflight veteran will end her visit on June 12 participating in hands-on engineering activities with children Activities begin at 10 a m

Coleman is a veteran of three spaceflights She has logged more than 4,330 hours in space For her most recent mission, Expeditions 26 and 27 to the International Space Station, Coleman launched aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and spent 159 days in space performing science experiments and space station maintenance operations

For more information about this appearance, contact Brenda Cabaniss, Astronaut Appearances Office, at 281-244-8860 or Joey Shapiro Key, Montana Space Grant Consortium, at 406-994-1753

For more information about Coleman, visit:

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

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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 15:35:27 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ALMA MATER

June 6, 2012

Dana Davis Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-0933

Report #JA12-017

NASA ASTRONAUT TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ALMA MATER

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Scott D Tingle will deliver the commencement address at Blue Hills Regional Technical School at 6 p m EDT June 12 The graduation ceremony will take place outside, on the schoolï¿½s campus, at 800 Randolph St , in Canton, Mass In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be held at 6 p m the following day, June 13

Blue Hills Regional Technical School is a four-year public high school that provides technical training for students The schoolï¿½s curriculum emphasizes the integration of cutting-edge technical programs and challenging academic courses

Tingle, a U S Navy commander and decorated pilot, is a 1983 graduate of Blue Hills Regional Technical School He was selected in 2009 as one of 14 members of the 20th NASA astronaut class He recently graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training which included scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in International Space Station systems, spacewalking, robotics, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training

Before his career at NASA, Tingle earned a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Southeastern Massachusetts University (now the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth), graduating magna cum laude in 1987 He earned a Master of Science in mechanical engineering with a specialty in fluid mechanics and propulsion from Purdue University in 1988

Following graduate school, Tingle was commissioned as a naval officer in 1991 and earned his Wings of Gold as a naval aviator in 1993 He has accumulated more than 3,500 flight hours in 48 types of aircraft, 700 carrier arrestments and 54 combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan

For more about Tingle, visit:

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

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