Stephanie Schierholz
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-102
NASA ASTRONAUTS -- INCLUDING SPACE STATION CREW MEMBER FROM MARYLAND -- AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON -- NASA Headquarters in Washington will welcome space
shuttle Atlantis' STS-132 astronauts and International Space Station
Expedition 22 and 23 Flight Engineer T.J. Creamer for a visit Monday,
July 26, through Thursday, July 29.
Creamer considers Upper Marlboro, Md., his hometown. He graduated from
Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Md., and Loyola College
in Columbia, Md.
Ken Ham commanded the shuttle flight and was joined by Pilot Tony
Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Michael Good,
Steve Bowen and Piers Sellers. The six astronauts' 12-day mission in
May was the last scheduled flight of Atlantis.
While in the nation's capital, the astronauts will participate in
several activities open to the public and journalists. Reporters
should refer to individual events for information about how to cover
them.
At 10 a.m. Monday, Sellers will visit the Save the Children
organization to return a T-shirt that he carried to space. Reporters
planning to cover the presentation must contact Eileen Burke at
203-216-0718 or eburke@savethechildren.org.
The astronauts will share mission highlights with NASA employees,
their families and reporters at NASA Headquarters' James E. Webb
Auditorium, 300 E Street SW, at 1:30 p.m. EDT on Monday. The crew's
presentation will air live on NASA Television. Interviews are
available after 2:30 p.m. To schedule an interview, reporters must
contact Stephanie Schierholz at 202-358-1100 or
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov.
At 6:30 p.m. Monday, the shuttle crew will discuss its mission at
Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in the Lohrfink
Auditorium of the Rafik B. Hariri Building. Reporters interested in
covering the event or interviewing astronauts afterward should
contact Teresa Mannix at 202-687-4080 or tmm53@georgetown.edu. The
sold-out event will be shown on NASA TV and webcast at
http://www.msb.georgetown.edu.
The STS-132 astronauts will give an educational presentation and
answer questions about their mission at the National Air and Space
Museum on Tuesday, July 27, at 10:30 a.m. Sellers will return a
replica of the Nobel Prize that is in the museum's collection and was
flown aboard Atlantis. The prize was won by NASA astrophysicist John
Mather and University of California, Berkeley researcher George Smoot
in 2006 for their work using the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite
to understand the big-bang theory of the universe. This event is open
to the public. Journalists planning to attend must contact Isabel
Lara at larai@si.edu or Brian Mullen at mullenb@si.edu.
At 2 p.m. Tuesday, Good, Sellers and Reisman will visit the Children's
National Medical Center at 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, in Washington.
The astronauts will interact with the children and their families and
talk to them about space exploration. Reporters interested in
covering this visit must contact Paula Darte at 202-821-6357 or
pdarte@cnmc.org.
Creamer, an Army colonel, will visit the U.S. Army Center of Military
History at the Pentagon Tuesday afternoon. Reporters interested in
covering Creamer's tour of the exhibit must contact Gary Tallman at
the Pentagon at 703-614-1742 or gary.tallman@us.army.mil.
On Tuesday evening, all seven astronauts will attend the Washington
Nationals baseball game at Nationals Park in southeast Washington,
where they will be recognized on the field before the start of the
game against the Atlanta Braves. More than 500 employees from NASA
Headquarters and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md., also are expected to attend the game. Credentialed news media
representatives who would like an interview at the ballpark must
contact Joanna Comfort at 202-640-7711 or
joanna.comfort@nationals.com.
Creamer will visit his alma mater Bishop McNamara High School in
Forestville, Md., on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Journalists who would like
to accompany Creamer through his visit of the school must contact Jim
Palmer at palmerj@bmhs.org.
NASA has invited 100 of its Twitter followers to a Tweetup with
Creamer on Thursday, July 29, at 3 p.m. at NASA Headquarters. While
in space, Creamer set up the International Space Station's live
Internet connection. He posted updates about the mission to his
Twitter account and sent the first live tweet from the orbiting
outpost. The NASA Tweetup will be broadcast on NASA TV. The event can
be tracked with the hashtag #NASATweetup or by following the list of
attendees at: http://twitter.com/nasatweetup/astro-tj-tweetup.
Reporters who would like to cover the NASA Tweetup must register in
advance with Stephanie Schierholz at 202-358-1100 or
stephanie.schierholz@nasa.gov.
The STS-132 mission delivered the Russian-built Mini Research Module-1
to the International Space Station. Also known as Rassvet (the
Russian word for "dawn"), the module provides additional storage
space and a new docking port for Russian Soyuz and Progress
spacecraft. The mission's three spacewalks focused on replacing and
installing components outside the station, including replacing six
batteries, installing a communications antenna and adding parts to
the Canadian Dextre robotic arm. For more information about the
STS-132 crew members and their mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts132/main
Creamer spent 161 days living aboard the station as part of the
Expedition 22 and 23 crews. He launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in
December 2009 and returned to Earth June 2. For Creamer's complete
biography, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/creamer.html
For more information about the space station, visit:
For NASA TV schedule information and links to streaming video, visit:
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