Searching for New Vaccines and Studying Butterflies in Space; NASA Offers TV Interviews about Latest Space Station Science Research
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HOUSTON -- Astronauts are not the only ones earning wings on the
International Space Station. Butterflies emerged aboard the station
recently, to the delight of science students across the country. That
experiment and studies of bacteria that advance research about food
poisoning and infections are the subjects of live NASA TV satellite
interview opportunities from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. CST on Friday, Dec. 18.
International Space Station Program Scientist Julie Robinson will be
available for interviews along with Dr. Nancy Moreno, a principal
investigator of the Painted Lady butterfly education activities.
Moreno is a professor at the Baylor College of Medicine who is
conducting the butterfly research with the National Space Biomedical
Research Institute in Houston and the University of Colorado at
Boulder.
To participate in the interviews, media representatives must contact
the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston at
281-483-5111 by 1 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 17. B-roll of the
butterflies in space and other recent station research will be
broadcast beginning at 5:30 a.m.
The butterfly experiment, which included stunning Monarch and Painted
Lady butterflies, is focused on stimulating science education across
the country by studying the insects' development and behavior in
microgravity. Hundreds of science teachers are participating with
ground-based versions of the study and sharing the excitement with
their students. The Monarchs were the first to be sent into space,
while the Painted Ladies were the first to undergo a full
metamorphosis from larva to pupa to adult while in orbit.
Other recent experiments on the station are making advances in the
fight against food poisoning, testing new methods for delivering
medicine to fight cancer cells, and investigating better materials
for future spacecraft.
The NASA 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 6, transponder 5C,
located at 72 degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band 5150 Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEC is 3/4, data
rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is 4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB,
minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB.
The interviews also will be broadcast live on NASA TV. For streaming
video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
For more about scientific studies aboard the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
Source: NASA
