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1. ASTRONAUT TALKS MARS EXPLORATION AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
2. NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE SPACE STATION MISSION

Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 13:07:53 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: ASTRONAUT TALKS MARS EXPLORATION AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

March 1, 2013

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

Report #JO13-002

ASTRONAUT TALKS MARS EXPLORATION AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

HOUSTON�NASA astronaut Stanley Love will visit Corvallis, Ore , on Monday, March 4, to talk to engineering students about the difficulties of traveling to the red planet

The presentation, hosted by Oregon State University�s (OSU�s) student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is aimed at educating students on the challenges NASA faces in the quest for human exploration of Mars

Love�s presentation begins at 6 p m PST at Milam Hall auditorium (026), 2520 SW Campus Way, on the OSU campus The presentation is free of charge and open to the public Media are welcome to attend

Love is a 1983 graduate of Churchill High School in Eugene, Ore After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif , in 1987, Love went on to attend graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle where he earned a Master of Science in 1989 and a doctorate in philosophy in 1993

Selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998, Love was a mission specialist on space shuttle mission STS-122 in 2008 He most recently served as a submarine pilot for the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations test off the coast of Key Largo, Fla

For more information about this appearance or to schedule an interview, contact Brenda Cabaniss, NASA Astronaut Appearances Office, 281-244-8860

For additional information about Love, visit:

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

For information on Mars exploration, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/msl/index html

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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 14:00:30 -0600 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE SPACE STATION MISSION

February 28, 2013

Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Rachel Kraft
Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-040

NASA ASTRONAUT CHRIS CASSIDY AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE SPACE STATION MISSION

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy of Maine, who is making final preparations at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for a March launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 5 to 6 a m CST Friday, March 8

The interviews will originate from Star City, and will be preceded at 4:30 a m by a video b-roll feed of Cassidy's mission training and previous spaceflight To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 no later than 1 p m , Thursday, March 7

Cassidy is a Navy SEAL and graduate of the U S Naval Academy He served in worldwide deployments supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan prior to joining NASA in 2004 Cassidy previously flew in space as a mission specialist aboard space shuttle Endeavour on STS-127 in 2009 On that mission Cassidy completed three spacewalks during the construction of the space station

Cassidy will launch with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) The trio is set to launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:43 p m CDT March 28 (2:43 a m March 29 Baikonur time) They are scheduled to return to Earth Sept 11

This launch will be the first time in the 12-year history of the space station a spacecraft carrying crew will dock to the outpost within hours of launching Approximately six hours after launch, and several orbits around Earth, the crew will dock and enter the station

When they arrive, the trio will join NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, who launched to the station in December 2012 The six-person crew will participate in several hundred experiments in biology and biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their almost six month space mission

NASA TV's Media Channel 103 will carry the b-roll and will be used to conduct the interviews It is an MPEG-4 digital C-band signal, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite AMC-18C, transponder 3C, at 105 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3760 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38 80 MHz, symbol rate of 28 0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception The Compression Format is MPEG-4, Video PID = 0x1031 hex / 4145 decimal, AC-3 Audio PID = 0x1035 hex /4149 decimal, MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 0x1034 hex /4148 decimal

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

Cassidy's biography is available at:

http://go nasa gov/wQfxJe

For more information about Expedition 36 and 37, visit:

http://go nasa gov/XCDQ6p

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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