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1. SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR FERRY FLIGHT CONTINUES WEST
2. HOME FROM SPACE, NASA ASTRONAUT JOE ACABA SET FOR INTERVIEWS

Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:02:10 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR FERRY FLIGHT CONTINUES WEST

September 20, 2012

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

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Laura J Brown Federal Aviation Administration 202-359-3680

Report #M12-187

SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR FERRY FLIGHT CONTINUES WEST

HOUSTON -- The space shuttle Endeavour atop its 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) is scheduled to depart Houston's Ellington Field at about 7 a m CDT on Thursday for California

Departure is planned to the south with low flybys of Clear Lake and NASA's Johnson Space Center expected before the aircraft and shuttle turn northwest for a final pass over Houston heading west

Public viewing only will be allowed from the permanent fence line at Ellington Field Only news media and essential personnel will be allowed inside the perimeter fence

After departing the Houston area, the flight plan includes a low pass over the downtown Austin area near the Texas State Capitol building between 7:30-8 a m

A fueling stop is planned at about 8:30 a m MDT in El Paso at Biggs Army Air Field Takeoff from Biggs is planned for about 11 a m

After the refueling stop at Biggs, the SCA and Endeavour will make low-level flybys of the White Sands Missile Range and NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, as well as Tucson, Arizona en route to California The flyover of Tucson will take place approximately an hour and 15 minutes after departure from Biggs

Arrival at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base is scheduled for approximately noon PDT

Following an overnight stay, the SCA and Endeavour will salute the Edwards Air Force Base area early Friday with a low flyby northbound to Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area Next the duo will travel south, making a pass over NASA's Ames Research Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory before heading into the Los Angeles area

Finally, the SCA and Endeavour will land about noon PDT at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), for an arrival ceremony before Endeavour is taken off the 747 and transported to its permanent home at the California Science Center next month

The exact timing and path of the ferry flight will depend on weather conditions and operational constraints Some planned flyovers or stopovers could be delayed or canceled

During the cross-country ferry flight, social media users are encouraged to share their Endeavour sightings using the hashtags #spottheshuttle and #OV105, Endeavour's vehicle designation

For more information about NASA's transfer of space shuttles to museums, visit:

http://www nasa gov/transition

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:14:08 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: HOME FROM SPACE, NASA ASTRONAUT JOE ACABA SET FOR INTERVIEWS

September 19, 2012

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

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #M12-186

HOME FROM SPACE, NASA ASTRONAUT JOE ACABA SET FOR INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Joe Acaba of Southern California, who returned to Earth Sept 17 after four months on the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7-8 a m CDT on Wednesday, Sept 26

To participate in the interviews, reporters must contact Seth Marcantel at 281-792-7515 no later than 2 p m Tuesday, Sept 25 B-roll featuring highlights of Acaba's mission will air at 6:30 a m before the start of the interviews

Acaba, who was born in Inglewood, Calif , but considers nearby Anaheim his hometown, launched to the complex on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft May 15, spending 123 days aboard the station as a flight engineer of the Expedition 31 and 32 crews

Acaba supported the arrival of the first commercial resupply spacecraft, SpaceX's Dragon, in late May; an undocking, re-docking and final undocking demonstration of the Russian ISS Progress 47 cargo ship; the first single-day launch-to-docking demonstration of Progress 48; the arrival and departure of the third Japanese cargo ship; and served as intra-vehicular crew member for two U S -based spacewalks, helping to restore a critical power unit and exchange a faulty camera on the station's robotic arm Acaba also participated in numerous scientific research experiments and performed regular maintenance and operational tasks aboard the orbiting complex

Acaba previously spent 13 days in space as mission specialist during aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission to the station in 2009, where he conducted two spacewalks totaling 12 hours and 57 minutes

Acaba received a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree in geology from the University of Arizona He was selected as an astronaut in 2004

Acaba's biography is available at:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/acaba-jm html

NASA TV's Media Channel #103 will carry the b-roll and will be used to conduct the interviews It is an MPEG-4 digital C-band signal, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite AMC-18C, transponder 3C, at 105 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3760 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38 80 MHz, symbol rate of 28 0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception The Compression Format is MPEG-4, Video PID = 0x1031 hex / 4145 decimal, AC-3 Audio PID = 0x1035 hex /4149 decimal, MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 0x1034 hex /4148 decimal

For NASA TV streaming video, and additional downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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