NASA's Recently Returned Station Commander Williams Available for Interviews

Nov. 20, 2012

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

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-217

NASA'S RECENTLY RETURNED STATION COMMANDER WILLIAMS AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who returned to Earth
Sunday after four months on the International Space Station, will be
available for live satellite interviews from 6-7 a.m. CST Friday,
Nov. 30.

To participate in the interviews, reporters must contact Karen Svetaka
at 281-483-8684 no later than 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29. Video
highlights of Williams' mission will air at 5:30 a.m. before the
start of the interviews.

Williams, who was born in Euclid, Ohio, but considers Needham, Mass.,
her hometown, launched to the orbiting laboratory on a Russian Soyuz
spacecraft July 15. She spent 125 days aboard the station as an
Expedition 32 flight engineer and Expedition 33 commander.

Williams' stint aboard the space station included three spacewalks,
during which she and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide repaired
several critical elements of the complex.

Williams now has spent 322 days in space on two missions. She ranks
sixth on the all-time U.S. list for cumulative time in space and
second on the all-time list for women. She previously spent 195 days
in space as a flight engineer during Expedition 14/15. With seven
spacewalks totaling 50 hours, 40 minutes, Williams holds the record
for total cumulative spacewalk time by a female astronaut.

Williams received a bachelor's degree in physical science from the
United States Naval Academy and a master's degree in engineering
management from Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Fla. She
was selected as an astronaut in 1998.

NASA TV's Media Channel #103 will carry the b-roll and 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

Williams' biography is available at:

http://go.nasa.gov/ObgQJC

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #ISS. To
learn more about all the ways to Connect and Collaborate with NASA,
visit:

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