HSFNEWS Digest - 20 Jul 2011 to 21 Jul 2011 (#2011-93)

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Date: July 21st 2011

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NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO EARTH FOR FINAL TIME THURSDAY
NEXT SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS
STS-135 MCC Status Report #25
STS-135 MCC Status Report #26

Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:53:18 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO EARTH FOR FINAL TIME THURSDAY

July 20, 2011

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Candrea Thomas Kennedy Space Center, Fla 321-867-2468

Report #M11-151

NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE SCHEDULED TO RETURN TO EARTH FOR FINAL TIME THURSDAY

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla -- The final flight of NASA's 30-year-old space shuttle program is scheduled to end on Thursday, July 21, when Atlantis and its STS-135 crew return to Earth The landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida marks the completion of a 13-day mission to supply the International Space Station for the post-shuttle era

Thursday's Kennedy landing opportunities are at 5:56 a m and 7:32 a m EDT Atlantis' entry flight control team, led by Flight Director Tony Ceccacci, will evaluate weather conditions at the landing site before giving approval to Atlantis to return If the shuttle is unable to come home Thursday, additional opportunities are available on Friday at Kennedy and at the backup landing site, Edwards Air Force Base in California Recorded updates about landing are available at 321-867-2525

Journalists are invited to cover news briefings and special events to commemorate the historic event To cover landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) runway, reporters must sign up at Kennedy's press site for transportation NASA will accommodate as many news media representatives as possible, but the number is limited because of safety requirements

At about 7:45 a m , NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and STS-135 Commander Chris Ferguson will make comments at the shuttle runway The remarks will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website

From about 8 - 9 a m on Thursday, following the astronaut's departure from the shuttle runway, a limited number of journalists at the SLF will be allowed near Atlantis for a photo opportunity and comments from Bolden and Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana Interested journalists must e-mail Allard Beutel allard beutel@nasa gov by 5 p m Wednesday Space is limited

At 10 a m , NASA officials will hold a briefing at Kennedy's press site to discuss Atlantis' STS-135 mission The event will be broadcast live on NASA TV and the agency's website The participants will be:

Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations, NASA Headquarters
Bob Cabana, director, Kennedy Space Center
Mike Moses, space shuttle launch integration manager
Mike Leinbach, space shuttle launch director

Also at about 10 a m , Atlantis will be towed from the runway and parked outside Orbiter Processing Facility-2 (OPF-2) for several hours to give employees an opportunity to walk around and photograph the shuttle Reporters interested in covering the move must sign up at the press site for transportation to the photo opportunity locations These events will not be carried live on NASA TV

At 11:45 a m , Bolden and Cabana will host an employee appreciation event outside OPF-2 Journalists can cover the event from a designated media area near the main stage News media representatives interested in covering the event must sign up at the press site for transportation The event will be broadcast live on NASA TV and the agency's website

At about noon, following opening comments at the employee event, the STS-135 crew is expected to participate in a post-landing news conference from the press site The astronauts' availability is subject to change Immediately after a 20 minute media question-and-answer session, the astronauts will go to the employee appreciation event to talk briefly to the work force The events will be broadcast live on NASA TV and the agency's website

The Kennedy press site will open for shuttle Atlantis' landing at 8 a m Wednesday and remain open until 6:30 p m Thursday News media representatives approved for STS-135 mission badges can pick them up at NASA's Pass and Identification Building on State Road 3 on Wednesday from 10 a m - 3 p m and Thursday from 2 - 4 a m The last bus will depart from the press site for the SLF about one hour before landing

If the shuttle landing is diverted to Edwards after Thursday, reporters should call the public affairs office at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at 661-276-3449 for access Dryden has limited facilities available for previously accredited journalists

If Atlantis lands Thursday, it will have spent 307 days in space and traveled nearly 126 million miles during its 33 flights Atlantis launched on its first mission on Oct 3, 1985 For the latest information about the STS-135 mission and accomplishments, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

The NASA News Twitter feed is updated throughout the shuttle mission and landing To follow, visit:

http://www twitter com/NASA

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the space station and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:57:41 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NEXT SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

July 20, 2011

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

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M11-150

NEXT SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- The next crew to launch to the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p m CDT on Wednesday, July 27 at NASA's Johnson Space Center The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA centers or by phone

NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin are set to launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft on Sept 22 The three Expedition 29 crew members will participate in round-robin interviews To reserve an interview opportunity, U S media representatives must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p m Monday, July 25

To participate in the news conference from a NASA center, U S journalists must call the center's public affairs office by 5 p m local time on Tuesday, July 26 Reporters participating in the briefing by phone must be credentialed by a NASA center and call the Johnson newsroom by 12:45 p m on Wednesday, July 27

Burbank also will be available for live satellite interviews between 3:10 and 4:30 p m on July 27 NASA TV will air b-roll footage of Expedition 29 mission preparations beginning at 2:30 p m that day To participate in Burbank's satellite interviews, reporters must contact Stephanie Stoll at 281-483-9071 or stephanie r stoll@nasa gov by 3 p m on July 26

Burbank, Shkaplerov and Ivanishin are three of six crew members who will comprise Expeditions 29 and 30 Aboard the station, they will join Expedition 29 NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, who will stay aboard the station until November

Burbank's live satellite interviews will air on NASA's Live Interview Media Outlet channel The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by uplink provider Americom It is on satellite AMC 3, transponder 9C, located 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865 5 MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity FEC is 3/4, data rate is 6 0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4 3404 Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0

For astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/bios

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the international Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:25:40 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #25

STS-135 Report #25 3:30 p m CDT Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ Deployment of a small satellite, checkout of Atlantisï¿½ flight flaps and rudder, and packing up for their return home kept shuttle crew members busy Wednesday

Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandra Magnus and Rex Walheim are scheduled to land Atlantis a little before 5 a m CDT Thursday at Kennedy Space Center Forecasters are calling for good weather

That last landing of the shuttle program will bring Atlantis to its final home It is to be displayed at the Kennedy Space Center Visitorï¿½s Complex

The crew began cabin stowage ï¿½ packing up in preparation for Thursdayï¿½s landing ï¿½ early in its workday Ferguson, Hurley and Walheim spent a little over an hour beginning around 1:15 a m with a checkout of the flight control surfaces, the rudder and flaps with which they will guide the shuttle through the atmosphere Subsequently they hot fired reaction control system jets, the thrusters that control Atlantisï¿½ orientation before the flight control surfaces become effective as the shuttle descends into the atmosphere

Springs pushed the PicoSat from Atlantisï¿½ cargo bay at 2:49 a m It is designed to evaluate the performance of a variety of solar cells mounted on it The eight-pound, 5- by 5- by 10-inch satellite could lead to development of improved solar cells for use in space

It was the 180th payload deployed by a space shuttle

Shuttle crew members got one last chance to talk from space with news media representatives on the ground A little before 4 a m , the crew answered questions from ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News and NBC News

The Empire State Building in New York City ï¿½ instantly recognizable just as the NASA space shuttle is ï¿½ will pay tribute to, and celebrate, the Space Shuttle Program Wednesday night by lighting the way home for Atlantis and its crew To honor 30 years of shuttle flights on 135 missions, the Empire State Building will glow Red, White and Blue throughout the night Wednesday as Atlantis prepares to return home ending the last shuttle flight The ESB lighting schedule is at:

http://www esbnyc com/

A graphic depicting the tribute is available at:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/shuttle/multimedia/empire_state html

The next status report will be issued after crew wakeup, scheduled for 8:29 p m Wednesday or earlier if warranted

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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:45:49 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: STS-135 MCC Status Report #26

STS-135 Report #26 Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 8:30 p m CDT Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas

HOUSTON ï¿½ The final day of the final space shuttle mission began at 8:29 p m with an iconic final wakeup song

Kate Smithï¿½s rendition of Irving Berlinï¿½s ï¿½God Bless Americaï¿½ woke Commander Chris Ferguson, Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim But unlike most wakeup songs, which are played in honor of a particular crew member, this one was dedicated to not only the entire crew, but also all ï¿½the men and women who put their heart and soul into the shuttle program for all these years,ï¿½ as Capcom Shannon Lucid told the crew

Ferguson said it was an appropriate song for their last day in space

ï¿½Thank you, America, for supporting this program,ï¿½ he said ï¿½Weï¿½ll see you on the ground here in a few short hours, hopefully ï¿½

Preparations are now underway for Atlantisï¿½ 33rd and final landing, scheduled for 4:56 a m , just before dawn in Florida The teams here on the ground will spend the intervening time taking a close look at weather conditions at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which are forecast to be favorable, before giving the crew a go or no-go to perform a deorbit burn at 3:49 a m to put Atlantis on the path home

If, for any reason, the first opportunity canï¿½t be taken, a second opportunity would allow Atlantis to land in Florida at 6:32 a m To make that touchdown time, the crew would perform a deorbit burn at 5:25 a m Additional opportunities are also available on Friday morning

Assuming Atlantis does land on its first opportunity today, it will be the 19th night landing at Kennedy Space Center, and the 78th landing there at any time of the day There have been 54 landings at Edwards Air Force Base in California over the course of the program, and one at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, for a total ï¿½ including todayï¿½s scheduled landing ï¿½ of 133 space shuttle landings in 30 years

The next status report will be issued after landing or at the end of the crewï¿½s day if landing is waved off -end-

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 20 Jul 2011 to 21 Jul 2011 (#2011-93)

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