NASA Offers Tranquility Node Satellite Interviews from Launch Pad

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Bill Dowdell, NASA Kennedy Space Center's
deputy director for International Space Station and spacecraft
processing, is available for satellite interviews from 6 to 9 a.m.
EST on Friday, Jan. 22.

Dowdell will conduct the interviews from Launch Pad 39A, just outside
space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay. Tranquility, the next
pressurized element bound for the station, will be placed inside
Endeavour on 39A for its targeted launch on Sunday, Feb. 7.

Dowdell has worked for NASA since 1989, beginning his career in the
Space Shuttle Program as an agency and orbiter test director. He is
NASA's manager responsible for giving the "go" to launch the station
payload and the readiness of the orbiting laboratory to receive and
carry out its installation. Dowdell holds a bachelor's degree in
biology from Fairmont State College in Fairmont, W.Va., and a
bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from West Virginia
University in Morgantown.

To schedule interviews, reporters should contact Tracy Young at
321-867-9284 or by e-mail to tracy.g.young@nasa.gov by noon Thursday,
Jan. 21.

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.

For NASA TV downlink information, schedules and links to streaming
video, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the STS-130 mission and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

Source: NASA