Michael Curie
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
michael.curie@nasa.gov
Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
nicole.cloutier-1@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M10-141
NASA ASTRONAUT TRACY CALDWELL DYSON AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS
HOUSTON -- Recently returned from a six-month stay aboard the
International Space Station, astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson will be
available for live satellite interviews from NASA's Johnson Space
Center in Houston between 8:15 a.m. and 10 a.m. CDT on Friday, Oct.
15.
To arrange an interview, reporters should contact producer Jeremiah
Maddix at 281-483-8631, 281-414-6995 or jeremiah.m.maddix@nasa.gov by
2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 14. Video b-roll of Dyson's flight will air
Oct 15 from 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. on NASA Television.
Dyson and her crewmates launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-18 crew capsule
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in April. During the
174-day mission, Dyson served as a flight engineer for Expeditions 23
and 24 and conducted three spacewalks, logging 22 hours and 49
minutes outside the station. The crew replaced a faulty cooling pump
module on the station's backbone, known as the truss. The Expedition
24 crew landed safely in central Kazakhstan on Sept. 25.
Dyson was born and raised in Arcadia, Calif. She earned a bachelor's
degree in chemistry from California State University at Fullerton and
a doctorate in chemistry from the University of California at Davis.
Dyson flew as a mission specialist on the STS-118 space shuttle
mission. On the flight, she operated Endeavor's robotic arm and
directed four spacewalks as the intravehicular crew member.
NASA TV's Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used for the
interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by
uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 3, transponder 9C,
located at 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity. FEC is 3/4, data rate
is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404 Msps, transmission DVB-S, 4:2:0.
The interviews also will be broadcast live on NASA TV. For streaming
video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
For complete biographical information about Dyson, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/caldwell.html
For more information about the International Space Station, visit:
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