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1. LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch
2. NASA Partner Boeing Completes Mission Control Center Interface Test

Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:17:29 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch

September 13, 2013

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M13-142

LIVE: NASA TV Airs September Space Station Crew Launch

NASA Television will provide extensive coverage live from Kazakhstan of the Sept 25 launch of three crew members of Expedition 37-38, as they begin their journey to the International Space Station Michael Hopkins of NASA and Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will depart from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:58 p m EDT (2:58 a m Kazakh time Sept 26) aboard a Soyuz spacecraft headed for the space station NASA Television coverage will begin at 4 p m and will include video of pre-launch activities leading up to spacecraft boarding Hopkins and Ryazanskiy are flight engineers, and Kotov commands the Soyuz spacecraft, which will rendezvous with the space station and dock after four orbits of Earth Docking to the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the station will take place at 10:47 p m NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 10 p m At about 12:25 a m Sept 26, hatches between the Soyuz and the space station will open Expedition 37 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos, as well as Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency will greet Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy Hatch-opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will remain aboard the station until mid-March Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano, who have been aboard the orbiting laboratory since late May, will return to Earth Nov 11, leaving Kotov as commander of Expedition 38 For the full schedule of prelaunch and launch 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

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:29:55 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Partner Boeing Completes Mission Control Center Interface Test

September 13, 2013

Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Report #J13-017

NASA Partner Boeing Completes Mission Control Center Interface Test

For the first time, the Mission Control Center (MCC) at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has tested communications with a commercial, crew-capable spacecraft, as The Boeing Company conducted an interface test between the MCC and software planned for the company's CST-100 spacecraft

Boeing has partnered with NASA to develop a fully integrated crew transportation system, with its CST-100 spacecraft and United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, in partnership with NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) New commercial spaceflight capabilities being developed by NASA partners through commercial crew initiatives could eventually provide services to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station, launching from U S soil

The August test verified that Boeing could send and receive data from its Avionics Software Integration Facility to the MCC The company's software facility and CST-100 spacecraft simulator are serving as precursors to integrated flight operations training

"Every day, our connection to the humans living and working in space comes through the historic and hallowed MCC in Houston," said Ed Mango, NASA's CCP manager "As low-Earth orbit opens to a growing commercial space industry, the ability of new spacecraft to communicate with existing space infrastructure is critical "

Through a reimbursable Space Act Agreement with NASA's Mission Operations Directorate, which began during CCP's second phase of development, Boeing is collaborating with the agency on mission planning, training and flight operations for its CST-100

"Our continued partnership with NASA Mission Operations Directorate brings valued experience to our Commercial Crew Program," said John Mulholland, vice president of Boeing Commercial Crew Programs "This fully integrated team will ensure that we can safely and affordably conduct missions "

Additional interconnectivity assessments conducted by Boeing will include software avionics testing for the ascent phase of flight and demonstrations that will put a human at the controls of the spacecraft simulator A pilot will run through the critical phases of flight, including rendezvous and docking by firing thrusters, navigating state changes and adjusting the spacecraft attitude

Boeing is on track to meet all 20 of its Commercial Crew integrated Capabilities (CCiCap) milestones by summer 2014 All of NASA's industry partners, including Boeing, continue to meet their established milestones in developing commercial crew transportation capabilities

For more information about NASA's Commercial Crew Program and its aerospace industry partners, visit:

http://www nasa gov/commercialcrew

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