Oct 24, 2008

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4715 john yembrick-1@nasa gov

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james a hartsfield@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-215

NASA TV TO AIR STATION CREW MESSAGES ON VOTING, 10TH ANNIVERSARY

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew members, one that urges all Americans to exercise their right to vote and another marking the station's 10th birthday

The messages will be broadcast beginning at 11 a m CDT, Monday, Oct 27, on both standard definition and high-definition NASA TV The HD version also will be broadcast at 11 a m CDT, Tuesday, Oct 28, and Wednesday, Oct 29

Speeding 210 miles above Earth at five miles per second, Expedition 18 Commander E Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff will join millions of Americans and cast their votes in the Nov 4 election Thanks to a Texas bill passed in 1997, Fincke and Chamitoff will join several past astronauts who have voted from orbit

Joined by Russian Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov, Fincke and Chamitoff also beamed down a message celebrating the upcoming 10th anniversary of the station's launch The first space station component, the bus-sized Zarya module, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov 20, 1998 During the last 10 years, 76 flights have launched to the complex The orbiting laboratory has grown to a mass of almost 600,000 pounds and an inside volume larger than a four-bedroom house

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For the latest information on the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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