Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov
WASHINGTON -- NASA will preview a pair
of spacewalks involving U.S., Russian and Japanese crew members aboard the
International Space Station at 2 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 14. The briefing will
be broadcast on NASA Television from the agency's Johnson Space Center in
Houston with media questions taken from other participating NASA locations.
The briefers are:
-- Dina Contella, Expedition 32 lead
flight director
-- Kieth Johnson, lead U.S. spacewalk
officer
Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka
and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency have a
combined 12 spacewalks between them. They are scheduled to venture outside the
Pirs airlock Monday, Aug. 20, for a six-hour spacewalk. The duo will install
debris shields on the Zvezda service module and move a telescoping cargo crane
from Pirs to the Zarya module.
Flight Engineer Sunita Williams of NASA,
a veteran of four spacewalks on a previous station mission, and Flight Engineer
Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to
conduct a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk Thursday, Aug. 30. The spacewalk will focus on
replacing a faulty power routing unit on the station's truss and running cables
for an upcoming Russian laboratory module. Hoshide's first spacewalk will be
the third for Japanese astronauts. This spacewalk will be the first based from
the Quest airlock since July 2011.
To participate in the briefings by
telephone, media representatives must call the Johnson newsroom 15 minutes
before each briefing. Priority will be given to journalists participating in
person; questions by phone will be taken as time permits.
For NASA TV downlink information,
up-to-date schedules and links to streaming video, visit http://www.nasa.gov/ntv.
For more information about the International
Space Station, visit http://www.nasa.gov/station.
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