Home From Space, NASA Astronaut Joe Acaba Set for Interviews

Sept. 19, 2012

Trent J. Perrotto
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
trent.j.perrotto@nasa.gov

Jay Bolden
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: 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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