NASA TV Coverage Set For Launch, Capture Of Japanese Cargo Ship

July 17, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-134

NASA TV COVERAGE SET FOR LAUNCH, CAPTURE OF JAPANESE CARGO SHIP

HOUSTON -- NASA Television coverage of the launch and arrival of an
unpiloted cargo spacecraft to supply the International Space Station
will begin at 8:15 p.m. CDT, Friday, July 20. The Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) "Kounotori 3" H-II Transfer Vehicle, or
HTV-3, is set to launch at 9:06 p.m. July 20 (11:06 a.m. Japan time
on July 21) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan.

The 16.5-ton HTV-3 is carrying almost 4 tons of supplies and
experiment hardware. It will launch atop an H-IIB rocket. The launch
will begin a weeklong journey to the station.

NASA TV coverage of Kounotori 3's approach to the station will begin
at 6 a.m. Friday, July 27. The cargo spacecraft will be commanded to
fly within about 40 feet while Expedition 32 Flight Engineers Joe
Acaba of NASA and Aki Hoshide of JAXA use Canadarm2, the station's
Canadian Space Agency-provided robotic arm, to grapple the vehicle
and berth it to a docking port on the Earth-facing side of the
Harmony node. Grapple and berthing are scheduled for around 7 a.m.

NASA Television schedules are available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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