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1. NASA Hosts Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas
2. New Crew Heads to International Space Station

Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:47:05 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA Hosts Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas

September 24, 2013

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

Sarah Ramsey/Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694 / 202-358-5227

Report #M13-155

NASA Hosts Workshop to Discuss Asteroid Initiative Ideas

NASA will host a public workshop to examine and synthesize 96 of the ideas submitted to a Request for Information (RFI) about the agency's asteroid initiative The workshop will be held Sept 30 - Oct 2 at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston

The workshop will feature discussions by experts from NASA, the agency's international partners, private industry and the public Topics include how best to identify, capture and relocate a near-Earth asteroid for closer study, how to respond to asteroid threats, as well as partnership, crowdsourcing and citizen science ideas Workshop results will be considered for future planning as NASA refines the details of its mission

NASA's fiscal year 2014 budget proposes an asteroid initiative that includes a strategy to leverage human and robotic activities for a first-ever human mission to an asteroid, while also accelerating efforts to improve detection and characterization of asteroids The work aligns the agency's ongoing efforts in science, new technology development and human exploration

NASA received more than 400 ideas in response to the June RFI The ideas were submitted by industry, universities, international organizations, and for the first time, individual members of the public NASA's selection process involved agency scientists, engineers and mission planners who are formulating details of the asteroid initiative

Each session will be webcast on NASA�s UStream channel, and virtual participation is encouraged Because of limited capacity, in-person attendance is limited to invited, registered presenters Selected sessions also will be broadcast on NASA Television Virtual audience members can ask questions through the UStream chat function and via Twitter with session-specific hashtags Complete schedule information, live webcasts, hashtags, and other details on how to participate virtually can be found at:

http://go nasa gov/1gW1MId

Media interested in attending the workshop in person should contact Rachel Kraft at rachel h kraft@nasa gov or Sarah Ramsey at sarah ramsey@nasa gov

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information on NASA's asteroid initiative, visit:

http://www nasa gov/asteroidinitiative

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:38:18 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: New Crew Heads to International Space Station

September 25, 2013

Josh Byerly Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1100

Report #13-296

New Crew Heads to International Space Station

Three new Expedition 37 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:58 p m EDT Wednesday, Sept 25 (2:58 a m Kazakh time, Thursday, Sept 26) on a six-hour trek to the International Space Station

Expedition 37 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are scheduled to dock their Soyuz spacecraft to the orbiting laboratory's Poisk module at 10:48 p m EDT NASA Television will provide live coverage of the rendezvous and docking beginning at 10 p m

The crew is scheduled to open the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the space station at about 12:25 a m Thursday Sept 26 Hatch opening coverage begins on NASA TV at midnight

Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will be greeted by three Expedition 37 crew members who have been aboard the space station since late May: Commander Fyodor Yurchikin of Rosmosmos and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency

The new crew will remain aboard the station until mid-March Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will return to Earth Nov 11

Expedition 37 will add several critical scientific investigations to the more than 1,600 experiments that have taken place so far aboard the space station Several new investigations will focus on human health and human physiology The crew will examine the effects of long-term exposure to microgravity on the immune system, provide metabolic profiles of the astronauts and collect data to help scientists understand how the human body changes shape in space The crew also will conduct 11 investigations from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program on antibacterial resistance, hydroponics, cellular division, microgravity oxidation, seed germination, photosynthesis and the food making process in microgravity

For information on the International Space Station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

To follow Twitter updates from Expedition 37 astronauts, visit:

http://twitter com/AstroKarenN

and

http://twitter com/AstroIllini

and

http://www twitter com/astro_luca

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

http://www nasa gov/nasatv

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