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1. NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS TO LAUNCH AND DOCK THE SAME DAY
2. NASA INVITES MEDIA INSIDE WORLD'S LARGEST VACUUM CHAMBER

Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:33:33 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS TO LAUNCH AND DOCK THE SAME DAY

March 20, 2013

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-052

NEW SPACE STATION CREW MEMBERS TO LAUNCH AND DOCK THE SAME DAY

HOUSTON -- Three new crew members are set to launch to the International Space Station on a six-hour flight to travel from the launch pad to their destination

Chris Cassidy of NASA, along with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:43 p m CDT, Thursday, March 28, (2:43 a m March 29 Baikonur time) Live coverage on NASA Television begins at 2:30 p m

Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin will become the first station crew members to make an expedited trip to the orbiting laboratory Instead of taking the standard two days to rendezvous and dock with the station, they will need only four orbits of Earth to reach the station This flight will employ rendezvous techniques used recently with three unpiloted Russian Progress cargo spacecraft

The crew will dock with the station's Poisk module at 9:32 p m , with NASA TV coverage beginning at 8:30 p m Hatches are scheduled to open between the Soyuz and station at 11:10 p m , with NASA TV coverage beginning at 10:30 p m

Cassidy, Vinogradov and Misurkin will join Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Tom Marshburn of NASA and Roman Romanenko of Roscosmos, who have been aboard the outpost since December 2012

NASA TV also will provide extensive coverage of activities from March 21-27 leading up to the flight All times are Central:

March 21, Thursday 1 p m -- Video File of the Expedition 35/36 crew activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

March 25, Monday 11 a m -- Video File of the Expedition 35/36 crew activities and Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft encapsulation in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

March 26, Tuesday 11 a m -- Video File of the Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M rocket mating and rollout to the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, plus launch pad interviews

March 27, Wednesday 2 p m -- Russian State Commission meeting and final Expedition 35/36 pre-launch crew news conference in Baikonur, Kazakhstan

March 28, Thursday 2:30 p m -- Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M launch coverage (launch scheduled at 3:43 p m ); includes video B-roll of the crew's pre-launch activities 6 p m -- Video File of Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M pre-launch, launch video B-roll and post-launch interviews 8:30 p m -- Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M docking coverage 10:30 p m -- Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M hatch opening and other activities

March 29, Friday 1 a m -- Video File of Expedition 35/36 Soyuz TMA-08M docking, hatch opening and other activities

For NASA TV schedule and video streaming information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information on the International Space Station:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:15:01 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA INVITES MEDIA INSIDE WORLD'S LARGEST VACUUM CHAMBER

March 21, 2013

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

J D Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241

Report #M13-050

NASA INVITES MEDIA INSIDE WORLD'S LARGEST VACUUM CHAMBER

HOUSTON -- The world's largest thermal-vacuum chamber will be open to news media at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, April 4

Upgrades are being made to the facility to prepare it for testing the agency's James Webb Space Telescope Scientists plan to use the Webb telescope to see further back into history than ever before

Attendees will be able to learn about the facility upgrades and the role they will have in preparing the Webb telescope Media interested in attending should email Brandi Dean at brandi k dean@nasa gov International media must apply for credentials by 5 p m , March 27 U S reporters should respond by 5 p m , April 3

Webb telescope scientists and Johnson chamber technicians will be available for interviews during the media opportunity The site is designated a clean room, so all media entering the chamber will be provided with specialized clothing

Johnson's 400,000 cubic foot vacuum chamber, Chamber A, was built in1965 to conduct thermal-vacuum testing of the Apollo Command Module and Service Module In addition to the Apollo modules, Chamber A has been used in component tests for Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, space shuttle, International Space Station, Department of Defense communication antennas and various other large-scale satellite systems

Since 2007, the chamber has been significantly modified to support testing of the Webb telescope the agency's successor to the Hubble Space Telescope Scheduled to launch in 2018, it will fly in deep space orbit more than a million miles from Earth To ensure it will function in the extreme environment of space, Chamber A will be equipped with instruments to measure and evaluate the shape and focus of the mirrors

As the most powerful space telescope ever built, the Webb telescope will observe the most distant objects in the universe, provide images of the first galaxies ever formed, and see unexplored planets around distant stars The telescope is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency

For more information on telescope and to follow the mission, visit:

http://www jwst nasa gov/

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