There are 2 messages totalling 120 lines in this issue

Topics of the day:

1. NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins Available for Interviews before Space Mission
2. Soyuz Landing Coverage Set for NASA Television

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:42:31 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins Available for Interviews before Space Mission

August 30, 2013

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-140

NASA Astronaut Mike Hopkins Available for Interviews before Space Mission

NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, scheduled to travel to the International Space Station in September, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7-8 a m EDT Monday, Sept 9

Hopkins will answer questions from news media representatives via satellite from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, where he is making final preparations for a Sept 25 launch Before the interviews, NASA Television will air footage of Hopkins' mission training, beginning at 6:30 a m

Reporters who would like to participate in the interviews should contact Seth Marcantel at Seth R Marcantel@nasa gov or 281-792-7515 no later than 3 p m Friday, Sept 6

Selected for the astronaut corps in 2009, Hopkins holds bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif , respectively He is a colonel in the U S Air Force

An advocate of lifelong fitness, Hopkins encourages the public to follow his mission preparations through the "Train Like an Astronaut" program He shares his workouts and fitness demonstrations through social media and plans to continue doing this throughout his spaceflight

Hopkins will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 4:58 p m Sept 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan He will travel to the space station with crewmates Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos)

When the Soyuz arrives at the orbiting outpost, the crew will join Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency

The crew members will assist in several hundred experiments that cross the fields of biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science during their mission, which will last nearly six months Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are scheduled to return to Earth in March 2014

For Hopkins' complete biography, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/hopkins-ms html

Follow Hopkins and other NASA astronauts via Twitter at:

@AstroILLINI

and

@NASA_Astronauts

For more information about Expeditions 37 and 38, visit:

http://go nasa gov/15jN1Ze

For more information about the "Train Like an Astronaut" program, visit:

http://www Facebook com/TrainAstronaut

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

-end-

#

NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Status Reports and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to listserv@listserver jsc nasa gov In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type "subscribe hsfnews" (no quotes) This will add the e-mail address that sent the subscribe message to the news release distribution list The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription Once you have subscribed you will receive future news releases via e-mail To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserver jsc nasa gov with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: "unsubscribe hsfnews" (no quotes) or from another account, besides the account used to subscribe: "unsubscribe hsfnews youremail@yourdomain com" (no quotes)

Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:42:37 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: Soyuz Landing Coverage Set for NASA Television

September 3, 2013

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-141

Soyuz Landing Coverage Set for NASA Television

NASA Television will provide live coverage Tuesday, Sept 10, as three of the crew members on the International Space Station return home, ending more than five months in space

Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy will undock their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the station 7:37 p m EDT Sept 10 They are scheduled to land on the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan at 10:58 p m (8:58 a m Kazakh time Sept 11) Their return will wrap up 166 days in space They launched from Kazakhstan on March 29

Undocking marks the formal start of Expedition 37 aboard the station under the command of Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos Yurchikhin and his crewmates, Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, will tend to the station as a three-person crew for two weeks until the arrival of three new crewmates NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy are scheduled to launch from Kazakhstan Sept 25, U S time

NASA Television coverage will begin Sept 9 with the change of command ceremony, in which Vinogradov will turn over the reins of station operation to Yurchikhin Coverage will continue Sept 10 and Sept 11 with Expedition 36 landing and post-landing activities

For the full schedule of landing coverage, visit:

http://www nasa gov/stationnews

For information on the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

-end-

#

NASA Johnson Space Center Mission Status Reports and other information are available automatically by sending an Internet electronic mail message to listserv@listserver jsc nasa gov In the body of the message (not the subject line) users should type "subscribe hsfnews" (no quotes) This will add the e-mail address that sent the subscribe message to the news release distribution list The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription Once you have subscribed you will receive future news releases via e-mail To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@listserver jsc nasa gov with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: "unsubscribe hsfnews" (no quotes) or from another account, besides the account used to subscribe: "unsubscribe hsfnews youremail@yourdomain com" (no quotes)

End of HSFNEWS Digest - 30 Aug 2013 to 4 Sep 2013 (#2013-76)