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M13-040

NASA Astronaut Chris Cassidy Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission

HOUSTON — NASA wanderer Chris Cassidy of Maine, who is creation final preparations at a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, for a Mar launch to a International Space Station, will be accessible for live satellite interviews from 5 to 6 a.m. CST Friday, Mar 8.

The interviews will issue from Star City, and will be preceded at 4:30 a.m. by a video b-roll feed of Cassidy’s goal training and before spaceflight. To attend in a interviews, reporters should hit Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 no after than 1 p.m., Thursday, Mar 7.

Cassidy is a Navy SEAL and connoisseur of a U.S. Naval Academy. He served in worldwide deployments ancillary Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan before to fasten NASA in 2004. Cassidy formerly flew in space as a goal dilettante aboard space convey Endeavour on STS-127 in 2009. On that goal Cassidy finished 3 spacewalks during a construction of a space station.

Cassidy will launch with Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin of a Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). The contingent is set to launch aboard a Soyuz booster to a orbiting laboratory from a Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:43 p.m. CDT Mar 28 (2:43 a.m. Mar 29 Baikonur time). They are

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MEDIA ADVISORY
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M13-041

SpaceX and NASA Host Teleconference Today on SpaceX 2 Mission to Space Station

WASHINGTON — SpaceX and NASA will reason a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EST currently to plead a latest information about a company’s second load goal to a International Space Station underneath NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.

The teleconference participants are:

-     Elon Musk, arch engineer and CEO, SpaceX
-     Gwynne Shotwell, president, SpaceX
-     William Gerstenmaier, associate director for Human Exploration and Operations at NASA Headquarters, Washington
-     Michael Suffredini, International Space Station module manager

For dial-in information, reporters contingency hit Josh Buck at jbuck@nasa.gov or 202-358-1100, or a Kennedy Space Center newsroom 321-867-2468.

Audio of a teleconference will be streamed live on NASA’s website at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

For some-more information about NASA’s International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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M13-037

NASA Coverage Set for Mar 1 SpaceX Mission to Space Station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The second SpaceX goal to a International Space Station underneath NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services agreement is scheduled to launch Friday, Mar 1, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA Television coverage starts at 8:30 a.m. EST.

The company’s Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon load plug will lift off at 10:10 a.m. If needed, a backup launch event is accessible on Mar 2 with launch time at 9:47 a.m. and NASA TV coverage commencement at 8 a.m.

The goal is a second of 12 SpaceX flights engaged by NASA to resupply a space station. It will symbol a third outing by a Dragon plug to a orbiting laboratory, following a proof moody in May 2012 and a initial resupply goal in Oct 2012.

The plug will be filled with some-more than 1,200 pounds of systematic experiments and cargo. It will sojourn trustworthy to a space station’s Harmony procedure for some-more than 3 weeks. The Dragon plug will dash down in a Pacific Ocean off a seashore of Baja California on Mar 25, returning some-more than 2,300 pounds of hearing samples and equipment, that will be recovered for hearing by scientists and engineers.

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M13-029

NASA Targets Mar 1 Launch for Next SpaceX Station Resupply Mission; Media Accreditation Open

HOUSTON — NASA and a general partners are targeting Friday, Mar 1, as a launch date for a subsequent load resupply moody to a International Space Station by Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

Launch is scheduled for 10:10 a.m. EST (9:10 a.m. CST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Media accreditation to perspective a launch is open. International media but U.S. citizenship contingency request for certification to cover a prelaunch and launch activities by noon on Monday, Feb. 18. For U.S. media, a deadline to request is Monday, Feb. 25.

Questions about accreditation might be destined to Jennifer Horner at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 321-867-6598 or 321-867-2468. All media accreditation requests contingency be submitted online at:

https://media.ksc.nasa.gov

NASA also is mouth-watering 50 amicable media users to request for certification for a launch. Social media users comparison to attend will be given a same entrance as journalists. All amicable media accreditation applications will be deliberate on a case-by-case basis. Registration for amicable media accreditation is open online. International amicable media users but U.S. citizenship contingency request for certification by 5 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 15, to qualify. For U.S. social

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M13-032

Reporters Invited to International Space Station Social Media Event

WASHINGTON — Journalists are invited to attend in a NASA Social from 9:30 a.m. to noon EST Wednesday, Feb. 20, in a James Webb Auditorium of NASA Headquarters at 300 E St. SW in Washington.

During this event, 150 amicable media supporters and their guest will pronounce with 3 of a 6 organisation members now aboard a International Space Station orbiting about 240 miles above Earth. The participants also will hear from group scientists and engineers about ground-breaking investigate holding place daily on a orbiting laboratory.

NASA Socials are in-person meetings for people who rivet with a group by Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other amicable networks.

Participants in this NASA Social will learn about a discoveries enabled by a space station’s singular microgravity sourroundings that advantage amiability and boost a bargain of how humans can safely work and live in space for prolonged periods.

Astronauts and officials scheduled to accommodate with a NASA Social participants are:

— Astronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn of NASA and Chris Hadfield of a Canadian Space Agency will attend from a space hire
— NASA wanderer Don Pettit, a former space hire proprietor
— Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate director for

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C13-008

NASA Awards Space Station Mission Operations and Integration Services Contract

WASHINGTON — NASA has comparison Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. of Huntsville, Ala., for a International Space Station goal operations and formation contract.

The cost-plus-award-fee services agreement is valued at about $120.1 million and has a intensity opening duration of 5 years. The agreement starts Mar 1 with an 18-month bottom period, followed by 3 one-year options and one six-month choice that might be exercised at NASA’s discretion. The agreement includes an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity member for additional services, as needed.

Teledyne Brown will yield operations in support of a International Space Station at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville and a agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Support entails all phases of flight, including goal preparation, organisation and moody controller training, and real-time mandate for spaceflight operations.

For information about NASA and group programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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C13-009

NASA Awards Engineering, Technology and Science Contract

WASHINGTON — NASA has comparison Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., for an engineering, record and scholarship agreement at a agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The cost-plus-award-fee services agreement has a intensity value of $1.93 billion, including options. The agreement starts May 1 with a five-year bottom duration followed by dual two-year options and includes indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity charge orders.

Work underneath a agreement will support Johnson’s Engineering Directorate and Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate. Services will include: engineering pattern and development; nutritious engineering; engineering investigate and assessment, record development; exam services; laboratory and trickery operation and maintenance; heavenly goal research; earthy scholarship research; and astromaterial curation. Contract services will be achieved at Johnson and comforts owned by Jacobs and vital subcontractors. It will be managed in Houston.

NASA programs and offices that will be upheld by a agreement embody a International Space Station, Orion, Advanced Exploration Systems, a Chief Technologist and Commercial Crew and Cargo and Mars Science Laboratory scholarship investigate and operations.

Companies that will support Jacobs on this agreement embody Aerodyne Industries of Oldsmar, Fla.; HX5 of Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; Hamilton Sundstrand of Windsor Locks, Conn., and Barrios Technology, ERC Inc., GeoControl Systems Inc., Oceaneering Space Systems and MRI

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13-046

NASA’S Refueling Demonstration Proves Viability Of Satellite-Servicing Technologies

WASHINGTON — NASA has demonstrated robotic liquid send in space, an design that will assistance surprise a growth of robotic record to refuel satellites. The first-of-its-kind proof was achieved during a Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) aboard a International Space Station.

“This feat is a vital step brazen in servicing satellites,” pronounced Frank Cepollina, associate executive of a Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. “RRM gives NASA and a rising blurb satellite servicing attention a certainty to robotically refuel, correct and say satellites in both nearby and apart orbits — good over a strech of where humans can go today.”

A corner bid with a Canadian Space Agency, RRM uses a International Space Station as exam bed for a investigate and growth of robotic satellite-servicing capabilities. During 6 days of activity final month, controllers on a belligerent at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston used a space station’s remotely operated Dextre, a robotic space handyman, to cut wires, mislay and reserve caps and perform tasks required to refuel satellites not designed to be refueled.

The cutting-edge technologies that RRM is demonstrating could extend a lives of many of a hundreds of satellites now in geosynchronous Earth orbit. These

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RELEASE
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13-042

NASA Hosts Its First Google+ Hangout Connecting with Space Station

WASHINGTON — NASA will horde a initial Google+ Hangout live with a International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This eventuality will bond NASA’s amicable media supporters with astronauts on a belligerent and vital and operative aboard a laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth.

Google+ Hangouts concede as many as 10 people to discuss face-to-face, while thousands some-more can balance in to watch a review live on Google+ or YouTube.

NASA’s amicable media supporters might contention video questions before to a Hangout. During a event, several video questions will be comparison and answered by a hire organisation and astronauts on a ground. Unique and strange questions are some-more expected to be selected. Additionally, NASA also will take real-time questions submitted by fans on Google+, Twitter and Facebook.

The deadline to contention video questions is Feb. 12. To be considered, video clips contingency be no longer than 30 seconds and contingency be uploaded to YouTube and tagged with #askAstro. Submitters should deliver themselves and discuss their plcae before seeking their question.

Also use #askAstro to ask real-time questions on Google+, YouTube or Twitter during a event. On a morning of a event, NASA will open a thread on a Facebook page

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M13-026

Space Station Cargo Ship Flights to Be Broadcast on NASA TV

WASHINGTON — NASA Television will yield live coverage of a skip of one Russian load booster at a International Space Station and a launch and attainment of another.

The ISS Progress 48 resupply ship, that arrived at a hire final August, will skip a Pirs advancing compartment, partial of a Russian segment, on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Progress will leave circuit 3 hours after and bake adult above a Pacific Ocean. NASA TV coverage of a undocking will start at 8 a.m. EST. The undocking is scheduled for 8:15 a.m.

That pierce will transparent Pirs for a attainment of a new ISS Progress 50 resupply spacecraft. It is scheduled to launch at 9:41 a.m. (8:41 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Monday, Feb. 11, from a Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA TV coverage of a launch starts at 9:30 a.m. The Progress is installed with roughly 3 tons of food, fuel, reserve and examination hardware for a 6 organisation members aboard a orbital laboratory.

Like a dual predecessors, Progress 50 is scheduled to launch into an accelerated, four-orbit event with a station, advancing usually 6 hours after launch. NASA TV coverage will resume at 3 p.m. for a event and advancing activities, with advancing scheduled

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