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1. STUDENTS BUILD SPACE HABITATS AT NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
2. UNIQUE 'PORTRAIT' OF SHUTTLE AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RELEASED

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:56:03 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STUDENTS BUILD SPACE HABITATS AT NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

June 7, 2011

Lynnette Madison Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-1089

J D Harrington Headquarters, Washington
J D Harrington / Michael Braukus June 7, 2011 Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241

Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington J D Harrington / Michael Braukus June 7, 2011 Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1979

Report #M11-113

STUDENTS BUILD SPACE HABITATS AT NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

HOUSTON -- University students are helping NASA develop potential habitats for future space missions Three teams from across the country will visit NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston during June to show off the inflatable space lofts they've designed and built for the inaugural eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge

One of the habitats will be chosen to participate in NASA's annual Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert-RATS) field test in September, where it will be tested as part of a simulated astronaut mission to an asteroid The winning team will receive $10,000 to offset costs associated with its participation

The three university teams will each spend one week in Houston setting up their habitat for judging News media representatives are invited to see the student innovations from 2 to 4 p m CDT during the next three Thursdays The schedule is: -- June 9: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater -- June 16: University of Maryland, College Park -- June 23: University of Wisconsin, Madison

To RSVP for any of these opportunities, reporters must contact Lynnette Madison at lynnette b madison@nasa gov by 5 p m on each preceding Wednesday

In June 2010, NASA invited university teams to submit inflatable loft concepts for the X-Hab Challenge Three competing universities were chosen, and those teams received $48,000 of seed funding to assist with their projects

The competition is designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines, which in turn will help develop the next generation of innovators and explorers It could also result in new concepts and solutions that NASA could apply to later exploration habitats

X-Hab is sponsored by NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate and the Innovative Partnerships Office in the Office of the Chief Technologist at agency headquarters in Washington For more information about the X-Hab competition, and for updates about the designs of each school, visit:

http://www nasa gov/exploration/analogs/xhab_challenge html

For more information about D-RATS, visit:

http://www nasa gov/desertrats

Updates about the activities will also be available via Twitter at:

https://twitter com/DESERT_RATS

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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:38:37 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: UNIQUE 'PORTRAIT' OF SHUTTLE AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RELEASED

June 07, 2011

Kelly Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-114

UNIQUE 'PORTRAIT' OF SHUTTLE AND INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION RELEASED

WASHINGTON -- Newly-released portraits show the International Space Station together with the space shuttle, the vehicle that helped build the complex during the last decade The pictures are the first taken of a shuttle docked to the station from the perspective of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft

On May 23, the Soyuz was carrying Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev, NASA astronaut Cady Coleman and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli back to Earth Once their vehicle was about 600 feet from the station, Mission Control Moscow, outside the Russian capital, commanded the orbiting laboratory to rotate 130 degrees This move allowed Nespoli to capture digital photographs and high definition video of shuttle Endeavour docked to the station

The Soyuz landed in Kazakhstan and was taken to Moscow for routine post-landing analysis NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, then processed the imagery as part of the standard disposition of spacecraft cargo

Additional images and high definition video are being processed and will be posted on NASA's website To view the still images, visit:

http://go nasa gov/stationportrait

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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