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NASA Schedules News Conference About Next Space Shuttle Launch

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NASA managers will hold a news conference on Tuesday, April 19, at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to discuss the status of the next space shuttle launch. The briefing will begin after the Flight Readiness Review, or FRR, a meeting to assess preparations for shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station.

Live status updates, including the start time for the news conference, will be provided during the meeting via the NASA News Twitter feed. To access the feed, go to the nasa.gov homepage or visit: http://www.twitter.com/NASA

NASA expects to announce an official launch date at the conclusion of the review. Endeavour and six astronauts are targeted to lift off at 3:47 p.m. EDT on April 29.

The briefing participants are:

-- Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations

-- Mike Moses, Space Shuttle Program launch integration manager

-- Mike Leinbach, shuttle launch director

NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefing live. Reporters may ask questions from participating NASA locations, and should contact their preferred NASA center to confirm participation. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Soyuz TMA-21 Gagarin spaceship takes off from Baikonur space center

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, April 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russian spaceship Soyuz TMA-21 Gagarin carrying a crew of the next mission to the International Space Station lifted off from the Baikonur Space Center in central Kazakhstan at 02:18 Moscow Standard Time /22:18 GMT/ Tuesday. 

Two Russian cosmonauts, Alexander Samokutyayev and Andrei Borisenko, and NASA astronaut Ronald Garan, are supposed to stay in orbit for five months.
Like their fellow-cosmonauts Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli and Catherine Coleman, whose orbital mission began last December, the new crew is expected to conduct from space the special jubilee events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first manned flight to space. 

The very name of the spaceship commemorates the Earth’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made a 108-minutes-long orbital rotation around the globe aboard the Vostok ship April 12, 1961. 

Alexander Samokutyayev is an active duty lieutenant colonel of the Russian Air Force. Ron Garan, 49, retired from the US Air Force in 2009. Andrei Borisenko is a highly experienced engineer working Energiya space corporation. 

The trio now making a two-day journey to the ISS aboard the Soyuz Gagarin will face a long enough list of knotty jobs, including the docking and unloading of three Progress cargo spacecraft and joint activities with the crews of two last shuttle flights – the Endeavour that is due to blast off April 19 and the Atlantis, whose start into orbit has been scheduled for the last days of June. 

The resident crew will also make a spacewalk to service the Russian segment of the ISS
In the course of that walk, a Radioskaf 2 Kedr space probe designed by Russian students will be launched. 

Apart from this, Samokutyayev, Borisenko and Garan have an expansive research program embracing more than 40 experiments, some of them to be held in space for the first time.
The Soyuz Gagarin is due to dock to the ISS at 03:18 Moscow Standard Time April 7 /23:18 GMT April 6/, sources at the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said.

LBWCC student NASA bound

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Aaron Nelson of Opp has his eyes on the sky and beyond to the planet Mars, and is looking forward to being part of an exploration team project directed by engineers with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

He is one of 80 students nationwide and four from Alabama selected to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program, including an upcoming trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

“I’ve always been interested in space and flight,” said the 1991 Opp High School graduate, who will soon complete LBW Community College’s industrial electronics program. “I would like to pursue an engineering degree later and thought this would be a good opportunity for me.”
Nelson’s involvement with the NASA-based program started late last year with an application, followed by an online assignment in four parts to plan and design a robotics mission to Mars.
“I had to submit the entire concept from budget, timeline and construction of a robotic rover.”
His first reaction to the assignment was to research what had already been done, followed by developing new ideas for the rover.

“My first thought was to use ground penetrating radar on the rover, along with a deep boring drill to get samples from the subsurface. Since they found ice on Mars before, getting this type of sample would allow for better analysis of the planet.”

Exploring and obtaining information from other planets provides information about our solar system, and can help explain how Earth was created, he said.
Nelson said he learned a lot about NASA and engineering through the initial phase of the program, such as the amount of time and work it takes to get a spacecraft off the ground and to another planet.
“A lot of work NASA does can also benefit our daily lives. Things they use in space travel have applications for the general public, such as plastics and polymers.”

The second phase of the program includes an expense-paid, onsite experience at NASA where he will work on a team project. He will also attend engineer, scientist, and astronaut briefings, and tour the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

“I hope to see the actual Mars rover that will launch later this year.”
Nelson, who moved to Opp at the age of 7, decided to pursue higher education 19 years after high school to better himself and the lives of wife Alicia; son Alex, 17; and daughters Krystal, 15, and Danielle, 3.
He has maintained a 4.0 grade point average since he started at LBWCC last year, earning a position on the president’s list each semester and becoming involved in Phi Theta Kappa, a national honors society. He will soon earn an associate in applied science degree in industrial electronics, and would like to return to LBWCC to pursue a degree in computer science.

Competing with community college students nationwide, Nelson said his selection for the NASA program still seems unreal. He recognized several LBWCC MacArthur Campus employees for their encouragement and critique of assignment submissions, including Allen Teel, industrial electronics instructor; Shannon Graham, English and speech instructor; and Jason Cain, director of student support services.

As Nelson prepares for his trip to California, where he’ll spend three days filled with space-related activities, he said he is most grateful for the support of his family.
“My wife is thrilled for me. She’s been behind me the whole way.”

NASA Delays Shuttle Endeavour Launch Until April 29

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In an effort to avoid a scheduling conflict with a Russian supply vehicle heading for the International Space Station, NASA announced Monday that it will delay the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour until April 29.

The Russian Progress supply vehicle is scheduled to launch on April 27 and arrive at the ISS on April 29. NASA has, therefore, targeted April 29 at 3:47pm Eastern as the launch time for Endeavour, which was previously scheduled to launch on April 19.

NASA will hold a flight readiness review and finalize plans for a launch time on April 19.

Endeavour started its roll out to the launch pad on March 10, the same day the space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth. On March 25, NASA technicians started loading up Endeavour with the cargo it will carry to the ISS.

On Saturday, technicians conducted a detailed inspection of the shuttle's external fuel tank foam after severe storms hit Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday and Thursday. Officials found "only minor damage" and "evaluations indicate there was no damage to the spacecraft," NASA said.

Today, workers at the pad will continue closeouts in Endeavour's aft section and will load hydrazine into the shuttle's hydraulic power unit, NASA said.

Also on Monday, NASA astronaut and Expedition 27 Flight Engineer Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and head to the ISS. They will join the three other members of the ISS crew, and will remain there until September. NASA Television will provide high-definition footage of the pre-launch events and liftoff, which is scheduled for 6:18pm Eastern.

The mission, known as STS-134, will last 14 days and will be led by Commander Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot at an Arizona shopping mall in January. In the wake of that tragedy, NASA selected astronaut Rick Sturckow as a backup commander in case Kelly had to stay with his wife. However, Giffords improved rapidly and was moved to a rehab facility near NASA mission control in Houston, so Kelly decided in early February that he will make the trip on Endeavour. Giffords will reportedly attend the launch.

Kelly's twin brother Scott is also an astronaut and recently returned from the ISS.

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