Three Members Of NASA's Final Space Shuttle Crew Available For Interviews

HOUSTON -- Three NASA astronauts who will fly aboard the last space
shuttle mission in July are available for live satellite interviews
next week. STS-135 mission Commander Chris Ferguson is available from
3 - 4:50 p.m. CDT on Wednesday, June 15. Pilot Doug Hurley is
available from 10 - 11:50 a.m. and Mission Specialist Rex Walheim
from 1 - 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14.

Shuttle Atlantis is targeted for launch July 8 with Ferguson, Hurley,
Walheim, and Mission Specialist Sandra Magnus to deliver supplies and
spare equipment to the International Space Station.

This will be Ferguson's third shuttle flight and his second as
commander. He is a native of Philadelphia and earned a Bachelor of
Science in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 1984 and
a Master of Science in aeronautical engineering from the Naval
Postgraduate School in 1991.

A colonel in the Marine Corps, Hurley will make his second trip to
space. In July 2009, he completed his first spaceflight as pilot on
STS-127. Born in Endicott, N.Y., Hurley considers Apalachin, N.Y.,
his hometown. He earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from
Tulane University.

STS-135 will be Walheim's third trip to space. He previously served as
a mission specialist and spacewalker on STS-110 in April 2002 and
STS-122 in 2008. Born in Redwood City, Calif., Walheim considers San
Carlos, Calif., his hometown. He is a retired Air Force colonel and
received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1984, and a master's degree in
industrial engineering from the University of Houston in 1989.

To arrange an interview with Ferguson, news media representatives must
contact Stephanie Stoll by sending an email to
stephanie.r.stoll@nasa.gov, no later than 3 p.m. on June 14. To
arrange an interview with Hurley or Walheim, news media
representatives must contact Stoll no later than 3 p.m. on Monday, June 13.

Participating media must tune into NASA Television's Live Interview
Media Outlet channel. 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. NASA TV will air the interviews live.
Video b-roll of STS-135 flight preparations will air at 9:30 a.m. and
12:30 p.m. on June 14 and at 2:30 p.m. on June 15. For NASA TV
streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For complete biographies of Ferguson, Hurley and Walheim, visit:

http://www11.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/ferguson.html

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/hurley-dg.html

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/walheim.html

To follow Ferguson, Hurley and Walheim on Twitter, visit:

http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Ferg

http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Doug

http://www.twitter.com/Astro_Rex

For more information about the STS-135 mission and crew, visit:

http://go.nasa.gov/STS-135

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