Shuttle Discovery's Flight Directors Available for Interviews
HOUSTON -- NASA Flight Directors Bryan Lunney from Houston and Royce Renfrew from Marble Falls, Texas, are available for live satellite interviews from 6 to 7 a.m. CDT Thursday, Oct. 28.Lunney and Renfrew will discuss space shuttle Discovery's STS-133 space shuttle mission to the International Space Station, targeted to launch Nov. 1. This will be the final flight for Discovery, NASA's oldest and most historic shuttle.
To participate in the interviews, reporters should contact Derek
Sollosi at 281-792-7515 before 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27.
Discovery and its crew are scheduled to lift off at 4:40 p.m. EDT on
Nov. 1, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will
deliver the Permanent Multipurpose Module (PMM) to the space station
as well as supplies for the crew. The PMM will provide additional
storage for the station crew and experiments may be conducted inside
it, such as fluid physics, materials science, biology and
biotechnology. There will be two spacewalks during the flight.
Renfrew, the lead station flight director for the mission, will be
available from 6 to 6:30 a.m. He has been a NASA flight director
since 2008. He earned a bachelor's in computer science in 1985 and a
bachelor's in history, as well as a secondary school teaching
certification in 1989 from Trinity University. He spent seven years
teaching high school mathematics. He also worked for several years as
a robotics instructor for the station crews and a robotics flight
controller inside the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space
Center in Houston.
Lunney, the lead shuttle flight director for the mission, will be
available from 6:30 to 7 a.m. He has served as a flight director for
both the station and the shuttle since 2001.
Lunney received a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from
Texas A&M University in 1989. He joined NASA that same year and
served in various roles inside mission control, including propulsion
officer and attitude determination and control officer.
The NASA Television Live Interview Media Outlet (LIMO) 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.
B-roll footage of preparations for the STS-133 mission will begin
airing at 5:30 a.m. on the NASA TV LIMO channel.
The interviews also will air live on the NASA TV public and media
channels. For streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the STS-133 mission, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Source: NASA
