HSFNEWS Digest - 20 Jun 2012 to 21 Jun 2012 (#2012-64)

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Date: June 20th 2012

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NASA ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE STATION FLIGHT
NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO SPEAK WITH NEEMO 16 CREW DURING UNDERWATER 'SPACEWALK'
NASA SET TO HOST FUTURE FEMALE EXPLORERS

Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:14:31 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE STATION FLIGHT

June 19, 2012

Jay Bolden Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #M12-117

NASA ASTRONAUT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS BEFORE STATION FLIGHT

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, making final preparations for a July launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 6 to 7 a m CDT Tuesday, June 26 The interviews will originate from Moscow and will be preceded at 5:30 a m by a feed of video documenting Williams' mission training

Williams, a record-setting astronaut who lived and worked aboard the space station for six months in 2006, will be a flight engineer on the station's Expedition 32 crew She will become commander of Expedition 33 Williams is scheduled to launch at 9:40 p m CDT July 14 (8:40 a m July 15 Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with Flight Engineers Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Williams is a native of Needham, Mass , and a 1987 graduate of the U S Naval Academy After earning her commission, Williams served in various roles as a Navy officer before being selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in 1998 She received a master's degree from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1995

Williams and her colleagues will be aboard the station during an exceptionally busy period that includes two spacewalks, the arrival of Japanese, U S commercial and Russian resupply vehicles, and an increasingly faster pace of scientific research

To arrange an interview, news media representatives must contact Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 or karen a svetaka@nasa gov by 2 p m Monday, June 25

The NASA Live Interview Media Service (LIMS) satellite will be used for the interviews LIMS satellite parameters will be provided by NASA to confirmed clients closer to the event

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For Williams' complete biography, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/williams-s html

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:24:40 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO SPEAK WITH NEEMO 16 CREW DURING UNDERWATER 'SPACEWALK'

June 19, 2012

Brandi Dean Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100

Report #M12-116

NASA ADMINISTRATOR TO SPEAK WITH NEEMO 16 CREW DURING UNDERWATER 'SPACEWALK'

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will speak with astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, commander of the 16th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) mission, and her fellow crewmate Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency at 4:10 p m EDT Wednesday, June 20 as they perform their final "spacewalk" of the mission, 63 feet below the ocean's surface

The administrator's call to the crew will air live on NASA Television

The NEEMO 16 crew has been simulating asteroid exploration on the ocean floor since June 11 They are scheduled to return to the surface June 22, after living for 12 days inside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius Underwater Laboratory off the coast of Key Largo, Fla At the successful completion of the mission, they will have performed 16 underwater spacewalks

The NEEMO 16 mission is focusing on three particular challenges of an asteroid mission The crew is investigating communication delays, restraint and translation techniques and optimum crew size The isolation and microgravity environment of the ocean floor allows the NEEMO 16 crew to study and test concepts for how future exploration of asteroids could be conducted

Metcalf-Lindenburger and Peake are accompanied inside Aquarius by Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Steven Squyres of Cornell University Squyres also was a member of NEEMO 15

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information on the NEEMO 16 mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/neemo

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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 09:48:33 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SET TO HOST FUTURE FEMALE EXPLORERS

June 20, 2012

Rachel Kraft Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Ann Marie Trotta Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1601

Report #H12-209

NASA SET TO HOST FUTURE FEMALE EXPLORERS

WASHINGTON -- Eighty-four female high school students from 29 states will plan a simulated mission to Mars and experience life as an engineer or scientist when NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston hosts two events focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in June and July

The Women in STEM High School Aerospace Scholars project, or WISH, is sponsoring two six-day summer camps for rising high school seniors The young women will work in teams with female NASA mentors to develop mission plans for launching to Mars, living and working there, and integrating the many components necessary for a successful planetary mission They will work within the confines of a fictitious budget and build several small mockups of vehicles to demonstrate a successful launch and landing of the Mars spacecraft

"WISH gives some of our brightest future innovators a chance to experience some of the exciting challenges that NASA engineers and scientists face on a daily basis," said Johnson Deputy Director and four-time space shuttle astronaut Ellen Ochoa "It shows the young women that there are a variety of opportunities for them in technical fields "

Young women participating June 24-29 will hear a first-hand account of life in space from NASA astronaut Shannon Walker Participants July 8-13 will have a chance to speak with a current space station astronaut via ham radio as part of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program, a NASA educational initiative that facilitates direct links between students and astronauts

The young women were selected based on completion of interactive, online lessons focused on space exploration and mapped to national education standards, academic merits and geographic diversity The WISH program encourages young women to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees and exposes them to the real-world applications of STEM careers at NASA This program is in its second year It began as a NASA accompaniment to the White House Council on Women and Girls

For more information about WISH and a list of student participants, visit:

http://go usa gov/dsP

For information about NASA's education programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov/education

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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End of HSFNEWS Digest - 20 Jun 2012 to 21 Jun 2012 (#2012-64)

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