Returned Space Station Astronauts Available For Interviews
HOUSTON -- After a six-month stay aboard the International Space
Station, astronauts Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock will be
available for live satellite interviews on Tuesday, Dec. 14, from
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Wheelock will be available from 5 to 6 a.m. CST. Walker will be
available from 6:10 to 7 a.m. The interviews will be broadcast live
on NASA Television.
To arrange an interview, reporters should contact producer Jeremiah
Maddix at 281-483-8631 or 281-414-6995 or by e-mail at
jeremiah.m.maddix@nasa.gov by 2 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 13. Video b-roll
from Walker and Wheelock's mission will air Dec. 14 from 4:30 to 5
a.m. on NASA TV.
Wheelock, Walker and their crewmate, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor
Yurchikhin, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on
June 15. During the mission, Wheelock served as commander of
Expedition 25 and supported three unplanned spacewalks to replace a
faulty pump module. Walker served as a flight engineer for Expedition
25 and was co-pilot of the Soyuz during its launch and landing. The
trio spent 163 days in space and landed in Kazakhstan on Nov. 25.
During their mission, the crew members worked on more than 120
microgravity experiments in human research, biology and
biotechnology, physical and materials sciences, technology
development, and Earth and space sciences. The crew also celebrated
the station's 10th anniversary of continuous habitation, work and
research by international crews on Nov. 2.
Wheelock is from Windsor, N.Y. He has degrees from the United States
Military Academy at West Point and the Georgia Institute of
Technology. He also served as a mission specialist on shuttle mission
STS-120 in 2007.
Walker is Houston's only native astronaut and holds multiple degrees
from Rice University.
NASA TV's 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 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.
For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For biographical information about Walker and Wheelock, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
For information about the International Space Station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
Source: NASA
