April 3, 2009 Vol. 49, No. 7 Spaceport News John F. - America’s gateway to the universe

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INSIDE . . . Bird team clears path for Discovery Final Ares I-X By Linda Herridge segments arrive Spaceport News irds fly where they will and there’s no Bway to predict when one or more might strike the during launch or landing. To re- Page 2 duce the chances, Kennedy Space Center makes use Shuttle’s MLP-1 of several bird-deterrent handed over methods. to Constellation As Discovery touched Program down at 3:13 p.m. EDT on March 28, and glided to a stop at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility, or SLF, the EG&G team felt a sense of accomplishment in creat- ing the safest environment Page 3 possible for its return. NASA/Kevin O’Connell According to Ron Feile, Space shuttle Discovery touches down on Runway 15 at Kennedy Space Center, completing the 13-day, 5.3-million mile Dream Job journey of the STS-119 mission to the International Space Station. Main gear touchdown was at 3:13:17 p.m. EDT. Nose gear EG&G air traffic controller, touchdown was at 3:13:40 p.m. and wheelstop was at 3:14:45 p.m. Experience NASA’s Space Shuttle Pro- winners visit KSC gram mandates that NASA on the ground. in the landing facility’s has a hazard management Smith fired shotguns Mate/Demate Device and plan. The SLF plan includes and pistols loaded with that it’s a popular hangout the use of pyrotechnics, blanks to scare large flocks for vultures. propane cannons and bird- of birds away from the “The bird threat can watch activities. runway. From time to time, come from any direction, About five hours before he would sound a special at any time, day or night,” Discovery’s first landing siren from his truck or use Asche said. He also said opportunity, several EG&G a remote control to set off shooting blanks at birds workers were stationed at NASA/ Troy Cryder cannons. requires timing. Page 6 the SLF’s Landing Aids EG&G’s Bob Smith fires a shotgun A series of 25 liquid “There are times not Control Building, the con- loaded with blanks in an attempt to propane cannons, placed in to shoot at them. You don’t Heritage: scare large flocks of birds away from strategic locations along the want a flock of birds flying trol tower and at the runway the runway at Kennedy Space Center’s Mission prep overrun area monitoring Shuttle Landing Facility. east and west sides of the around as the shuttle is land- ‘heats up’ in 1964 bird activity. SLF runway, are controlled ing,” Asche said. Air traffic controller Astronaut Brent Jett com- by air traffic controllers in Feile said the SLF team Vaden DeJarnette said that municated runway condi- the tower and remotely by also monitors bird activity large flocks of birds can be tions, including weather, bird-watchers in the field. when crews are at the center detected on radar as they fly wind and bird concerns These cannons, installed in for Shuttle Training Aircraft over or around the SLF. back to the Discovery crew. September 2007, are fired practice. “We mostly rely on Inside the control tower, randomly by zone, individu- “It gets more inter- communications from the EG&G air traffic controller ally or all at once. Each ro- esting during the winter bird-watcher and our own Donny Linton monitored the tates in a 360-degree pattern months with the addition visual confirmation,” DeJar- runway for birds and kept in for the greatest effect. of migratory birds from the nette said. touch with bird-watcher Bob Bird-watcher Kurt north,” Feile said. “It’s just Page 7 Flying in the Shuttle Smith, who was stationed in Asche said that Ospreys the nature of doing business Training Aircraft, Chief a specially-equipped truck have tried to build nests on a wildlife refuge.” Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS April 3, 2009 Final Ares I-X segments arrive at Kennedy via train By Steven Siceloff stand higher than 320 feet Spaceport News when it is complete. The rocket will be or years, Grady Mc- rolled out to Kennedy’s Coy has supervised Launch Pad 39B for liftoff the NASA Railroad F from one of the launch plat- as space shuttle booster seg- forms that was used by the ments were hauled across shuttle program. the Indian River to Kennedy “I never would have Space Center. March 19, he envisioned that when I was watched over the first boost- flying shuttle,” said Charlie er segments destined for the Precourt, a former astronaut agency’s new rocket. who is now vice president of The four segments will Space Launch Systems for make up the first stage of ATK. the Ares I-X rocket, NASA’s Precourt has a history new design to take over for with some of the booster the space shuttle and carry segments that Ares I-X will astronauts to the Interna- use. The booster segments tional Space Station and into get reused, and some of the Earth orbit to begin moon NASA/Kim Shiflett pieces made up the boosters missions. Ares I-X is the The NASA Railroad train hauls cars carrying the Ares I-X motor segments and nozzle exit cone over a river bridge to that carried Precourt into first flight test of the new Kennedy Space Center. The four reusable motor segments and the nozzle exit cone, manufactured by the Ares I first-stage space. launcher. prime contractor Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, departed Utah on March 12 for the seven-day, cross-country trip to Florida. “This hardware The rest of the Ares launched me into space three rails, will loft the rocket into rail cars and hauled by the the folks and they begin to I-X vehicle already is being times, three of the four times the skies over the Atlantic Florida East Coast Railway think this thing really could assembled inside Kennedy’s I flew,” Precourt said. Vehicle Assembly Building. Ocean to find out how the to Mims, Fla., where the happen. It becomes that If the Ares I-X flight test Most of the rocket is made design will work. NASA locomotive took over. much more real.” works as engineers expect it up of heavily instrumented “It’s pretty exciting Jon Cowart, Kennedy’s The booster segments to, the booster segments that weight simulators that will that the NASA Railroad is deputy mission manager for will go through the same lifted the shuttles will keep be stacked atop the booster getting into the next program Ares I-X, made part of the well-practiced preparations lifting astronauts into space. to give it the look and flight with Constellation,” McCoy trip with the booster seg- that shuttle boosters go “I have every faith this characteristics of the opera- said. ments. through. Then, the Ares I-X is a great design,” Cowart tional Ares I-X. The rocket segments “The team’s been work- segments will be stacked said. “Shuttle was fantastic During the test later this were fueled at the Alli- ing many years to get to this inside the Vehicle Assembly and great and does all kinds year, the first stage, made ant Techsystems, or ATK, point,” Cowart said. “When Building and the simulated of incredible things, but up of the four segments facility in Utah before you get the last of the hard- stages will be bolted onto we’ve got to move on to the McCoy watched traverse the being loaded aboard special ware here, it really energizes the top. The rocket will next thing.”

Spaceport hosts much-anticipated Family Day on April 18

ennedy Space Center, guests at specific facilities and NASA Exchange stores will Cape Canaveral Air Force More online times. be open for souvenirs, T-shirts and KStation and contractor For more information on 2009 Cafeterias in the following complimentary Family Day collec- employees are invited to attend the Family Day, as well as specific areas will be open for employees tors’ coins. 2009 Family Day on April 18. areas of interest for children, visit: and guests from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.: The Operations and Checkout Friends and family can partici- http://familyday.ksc.nasa.gov/ Multi-Function Facility in the Mission Briefing Room will host pate from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., but gates Launch Complex 39 area; the Space educational exhibits displayed by will close at 2:30 p.m. Kennedy and Station Processing Facility and NASA and contractor organiza- CCAFS will allow self-guided tours Access to the complex includes Operations and Checkout Building tions. On the cape side, Hangar T of designated areas and badged em- IMAX movies, the Shuttle Launch in the Industrial Area. will host exhibits and activities for ployees can escort guests through- Experience and entrance into the The snack bar in the Launch children. out the day’s activities. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Control Center will be open from The Space Museum at CCAFS The Visitor Complex’s main Kennedy is anticipating special 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There also will be will be open for guests to gain campus will be open throughout the guest appearances by active NASA three mobile refreshment trailers firsthand insight into the history day, free to employees who bring astronauts who will be available open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the of space exploration that began on their badge to the will-call booth. to sign autographs and meet with Launch Complex 39 area. Florida’s Space Coast. April 3, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 3

NASA/Kim Shiflett Mobile Launcher Platform-1, or MLP-1, on its way to Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center atop a crawler-transporter. The gave the launcher to the Constellation Program for its Ares I-X flight test , targeted for the summer of 2009. The launcher moved to the launch pad for ground control hardware testing with equipment in Launch Control Center Firing Room 1. Following testing, MLP-1 will move to the Vehicle Assembly Building’s High Bay 3 to begin stacking with Ares I-X. Constellation Program gets hands on MLP-1 he handover of Mobile The first modifications for Launcher Platform-1 from MLP-1 began in May 2008, with TNASA’s Space Shuttle Pro- the installation of 20 water bag gram to the Constellation Program cleats to the platform’s right-hand at a Kennedy Space Center cer- solid rocket booster hole, which emony on March 25 is the next step will prevent any possible acoustic in returning people to the moon and damage to the rocket during liftoff. exploring beyond. In December 2008, the ground The 4,625-ton, two-story steel control system hardware, which structure will be modified for the controls the ground equipment for first test flight of NASA’s next- checkout and launch, was installed generation spacecraft and launch NASA/Kim Shiflett onto MLP-1. vehicle system. The Ares I-X flight Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach speaks to the employees and media during the handover Next, MLP-1 will undergo test, which is targeted for launch this ceremony for Mobile Launcher Platform-1 near Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39B. Also ground control hardware testing at participating in the ceremony are, left, Rita Willcoxon, director of Launch Vehicle Processing at summer, will provide important data Kennedy, right, Pepper Phillips, director of the Constellation Project Office, and (not visible) Brett Kennedy’s Launch Pad 39B. Upon for developing Ares I and support a Raulerson, manager of MLP operations with United Space Alliance. completion, the platform will move critical design review next year. to the Vehicle Assembly Building’s “It truly is a historic day to Apollo, Space Shuttle and office. “This is a real enabler for High Bay 3 to begin its stacking be turning over a major piece Constellation programs. us.” with Ares I-X. of hardware from one manned The launch platform had just Constructed in the mid-’60s, During the handover spaceflight program to another,” been used on March 15 to launch Mobile Launcher-3, or ML-3, ceremony, Brett Raulerson, Shuttle Launch Director Mike space shuttle Discovery on its STS- originally was used for transporting United Space Alliance manager Leinbach said. “It really doesn’t 119 mission to the International and launching the Saturn V rocket for MLP operations, received a happen very often.” Space Station. for Apollo lunar landing missions. commemorative plaque that will be MLP-1 holds special memories After Leinbach shared some ML-3 was modified from 1975-79 hung in the MLP shop. An identical for Leinbach, considering it has history of the launcher, the banner for use in shuttle operations and was plaque also will hang in Kennedy’s taken part in 51 shuttle launches that read “Go Discovery” was renamed Mobile Launcher Platform- Launch Control Center. -- more than NASA’s other two changed to “Go Ares I-X” to 1, or MLP-1. “This MLP is the workhorse launchers. Its rich history also reflect its new mission with the In support of the transition, of the fleet,” Raulerson said. “It’s includes five Apollo launches, Constellation Program. United Space Alliance, Lockheed exciting to know it’s going to including four that put humans on “We are excited to have this Martin and NASA collaborated to support three (space) programs the moon. mobile launcher platform turned simplify design plans and capitalize before it is finished.” It’s the first mobile launcher over to us,” said Pepper Phillips, on previous shuttle upgrades and Following the Ares I-X flight platform to support space station, director of the Constellation Project existing infrastructure. test, MLP-1 will be disassembled. Page 4 SPACEPORT NEWS April 3, 2009 April 3, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 5 Scenes around Kennedy Space Center

NASA Craig Schulz, son of the late Charles Schulz, who created the Peanuts comic strip, and his family dedicated the statue of Snoopy in his spacesuit to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex to commemorate NASA’s 50th Anniversary. The ceremony included remarks by Schulz, Chief of Kennedy’s Public Services Division Pam Steel and astronaut Jon McBride.

Photo courtesy of Holly Kicks Team 233 took home first place at the FIRST Florida Regional Robotics Competition along with their alliance partners, Team 179 from Riviera Beach, Fla., and team 1649 from Windermere, Fla.. More than 40 students from Cocoa Beach Jr./Sr. High, Rockledge High and Viera High make up Team 233, which also won the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award. With the win, Team 233 will compete in the FIRST championship April 13, in Atlanta, Ga. Gia Roche and Jordan Hicks of Team 233 sang the national anthem at the opening ceremony of the regional competition.

NASA/Jim Grossmann STS-128 crew members look over packages of equipment that they’ll use during their mission in the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. From left, are Pilot Kevin Ford, Commander Rick Sturckow and Mission Specialists Christer Fuglesang and John “Danny” Olivas. The STS-128 flight will carry science and storage racks to the International Space Station aboard space shuttle Discovery. Launch of Discovery is targeted for Aug. 6.

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would like to share it. Send your information to Photo courtesy of Carleton Bailie/United Launch Alliance [email protected] or mail it to A United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket carrying the U.S. Air Force’s GPS IIR-20 satellite lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex-17A at 4:34 a.m. EDT on March 24. After a one-hour, eight-minute flight, the Spaceport News at: IMCS-440, Kennedy Space Center, FL 32988. Photo courtesy of Carol Kaelson 47th successful global positioning system satellite launched by a Delta II achieved orbit supporting the nation’s military Kennedy Space Center is shown on the game show “Wheel of Fortune” puzzle board as a toss-up puzzle on a broadcast Nov. 7, 2008. This show was taped during “Hawaii’s Big Island Week.” operations and commercial applications throughout the world. Page 6 SPACEPORT NEWS April 3, 2009 Wisconsin trio shares Dream Job Experience

are to dream. It’s a phrase found in Dmission statements, speeches and on wall post- ers around the country. In November 2008, the NASA education offices at Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers took that inspirational phrase a step further by partnering with Seventeen magazine, offer- ing a three-day “Dream Job Experience” to two deserv- ing students and a teacher. NASA astronaut Daniel Tani announced the Ken- nedy winners Feb. 12, at Lake Mills High School, in Lake Mills, Wis. They were Jeanne Nye and two of her former students at Lake Mills Middle School; Ev- elyn Libal, 17, and Nicholas Kreuziger, 16. “I was looking for scholarship opportunities and I stumbled on this con- test,” Kreuziger said, “And Mrs. Nye knew exactly who we needed to join us.” Teams of teachers and students around the country filled out a set of short-an- swer questions and wrote essays, vying for the experi- ence. The pool of applicants was narrowed down to five teams and those finalists NASA/Jim Grossmann participated in an in-depth Kennedy Space Center Dream Job Experience winners toured facilities March 25-27. From left, Evelyn Libal, 17, Nicholas Kreuziger, 16, and Jeanne Nye traveled from phone interview with a Lake Mills, Wis. The trio is shown learning about heat tiles in Orbiter Processing Facility-2. The contest was a combined effort of the NASA Education offices at Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers and Seventeen magazine. panel from Kennedy’s Edu- cation Office. a station on the moon, it Assembly Building before,” amazing.” readership of 13 million. Its Nye believes Libal’s would be intelligent to make Kreuziger said. “Being Nye, who jokes she’s of Web site has about 28 mil- answer to a difficult math it self-sustaining,” Libal afraid of heights . . . I said no relation to Bill Nye the lion page views monthly. question helped them win said. “I would love to help ‘this is a nice view’ . . . but Science Guy, teaches sci- Through the winners’ the experience, which took develop stuff like that and I didn’t want to look down.” ence to seventh and eighth blog and photos, as well as place here at Kennedy eventually take it to the Kreuziger, who plans graders. follow-up articles, Seven- March 25-27. people on Earth who need to attend the University of “I didn’t expect to teach teen will be able to connect Libal says she some- it.” Wisconsin - Madison, says science, but I had to figure their readers with an inside day wants to work for the The winners of the he sees himself working for out how find a way to be perspective of NASA’s non-profit organization once-in-a-lifetime oppor- NASA someday. around people and spend human spaceflight program Heifer International, creat- tunity got to learn firsthand “(Workers) are genuine- time in a lab,” Nye said. and also present positive ing alternative ways to feed about NASA’s missions, ly excited and passionate... “My mom told me I should role models and messages to communities. received behind-the-scene and excited about what they be a teacher, and at first I their readers. She hopes her edu- tours of Kennedy’s launch are doing here at Kennedy,” said no way . . . look at me “My science education cation might somehow facilities, and learned about Kreuziger said. “How now.” became an important aspect translate to her finding a current and future aerospace many people can say they This opportunity gives of school when the man first way to sustain a community and engineering careers. are holding a job they are NASA exposure to young got on the moon,” Nye said. in space. “I had never seen a actually excited about go- adults because the national “I’m sure that’s why I’m “If you want to make building like the Vehicle ing to everyday? It’s pretty magazine has a monthly here at Kennedy today.” April 3, 2009 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 7 Remembering Our Heritage Preparations for lunar missions ‘heat up’ in 1964 By Kay Grinter Reference Librarian o support President John F. Kennedy’s Tdecision to show the world American techni- cal prowess was marching “full steam ahead,” NASA launched two spacecraft back-to-back in April 1964, qualifying and testing new technology. The first orbital test of a preproduction Gemini spacecraft atop a Titan II rocket, or GT-1, lifted off Cape Canaveral Air Force NASA/Cory Huston Station’s Pad 19 on April 8, NASA alumnus Roelof “Ralph” Schuiling, who was an operations engineer followed by the launch of assigned to all the Gemini spacecraft, stands next to the Gemini-Titan 2 spacecraft on display March 27, in the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Museum the Apollo Program’s first on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Flight Investigation Re-en- try Environment, or FIRE, an Atlas-Antares launch ally long seven-hour launch experiment from Pad 12 on vehicle configuration. The window. Liftoff was plagued April 14. Antares velocity package by several days of inter- The mechanics of separated from the Atlas mittent cloudy weather at rendezvous and docking booster about five minutes Ascension Island before it became one of Project after launch. The Antares finally came on April 14. Gemini’s most important stage then propelled the NASA alumnus Harold objectives when lunar-orbit experiment back toward Zweigbaum was chief of op- rendezvous was chosen for Earth at a velocity of 25,000 erations for the Atlas-Agena the Apollo mission mode. mph. Splashdown was near launch vehicle and assumed GT-1 tested the struc- Ascension Island in the responsibility for the Atlas- tural integrity of the space- South Atlantic. Antares launch. craft to determine it could The blunt end of the “FIRE launches withstand the vibration and cone contained three beryl- were the most frustrat- acceleration loads imposed lium calorimeters, instru- ing launches in my career on it by the Titan booster. mented with thermocouples because there had to be a The mission’s objectives did interleaved with three phe- lack of cloud cover at the not require separation of the nolic asbestos ablative heat expected re-entry area,” spacecraft from the second NASA file/1963 shields. All but the last two Zweigbaum said. “From stage or its recovery. A truncated cone resembling a small Apollo command module was fitted with a layers were designed to burn the time we launched to the NASA alumnus Roelof heat shield to the FIRE spacecraft to test re-entry temperatures for future Apollo away or be jettisoned during time it re-entered, we had “Ralph” Schuiling hired on missions. An Atlas-Antares launch vehicle propelled the spacecraft back to Earth a 45-second high-heating to be sure the clouds would with NASA in 1961 after at 25,000 mph on April 14, 1964. re-entry period. not interfere with the visual Mercury’s suborbital flights, spacecraft seemed large by preparations for the FIRE Readings on the heat- documentation.” and was an operations engi- comparison. It was like go- 1 mission were “heating ing phenomena were taken Both successful mis- neer assigned to the Gemini ing from a Volkswagen to a up.” NASA needed a fuller during the earliest portion sions provided data impor- spacecraft. station wagon.” understanding of the com- of re-entry, at the peak and tant to NASA’s goal to land “They were called The way the launch plex physical and chemical near the end of the heating a man on the moon and ‘spacecraft’ rather than vehicle was handled on the changes that occur when a period. return him safely home. capsules because they could pad also changed. spacecraft plunges into the In addition to the The GT-2 spacecraft, be maneuvered,” Schuiling “The tower on Pad 19 atmosphere at speeds match- onboard sensors, informa- virtually identical to that of said. “The Mercury Project’s lay down on its side for arrival ing those of a lunar mission tion also was gathered from GT-1, was recovered follow- systems were in the capsule. and erection of a Titan, and return. For Project FIRE, Ascension Island with a ing a re-entry test in January The Gemini spacecraft had Gemini was NASA’s only a cone resembling a small telespectrograph, a light- 1965, and is on display in a service module that fell program to use this approach,” Apollo command module gathering telescope, and the U.S. Air Force Space away before re-entry. Schuiling said. “It was was fitted with a heat shield. from visual observations by and Missile Museum on “Following the Mer- weird to see it happening.” FIRE was the only scientists on the island. Cape Canaveral Air Force cury Program, the Gemini Meanwhile, on Pad 12, NASA project that utilized FIRE 1 had an unusu- Station. Page 8 SPACEPORT NEWS April 3, 2009

NASA Employees of the Month: April ON WORD THE STREET Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata recently took up ramen noodles and egg drop soup to the International Space Station. If you could choose, what food would you take to eat?

“Pizza from Pizza Hut. I really don’t eat that much pizza anymore. Maybe they’ll deliver it.” Roger Mathews, with NASA

NASA/Kevin O’Connell “I’m afraid I’d have to take up chocolate-anything. Employees of the Month for April are, from left: Teresa Lawhorn, Applied Technology Directorate I am a chocoholic. I simply love chocolate.” (Employee of the Quarter); Susan Danley, Engineering Directorate; Jeffrey Sampson, Engineering Directorate; Angela Solorio, Safety & Mission Assurance Directorate; Clara Blakeley, Chief Financial Beth Smith, Office; David Schultz, Launch Vehicle Processing Directorate; Mary Neptune, Launch Services with NASA Program; Lisa Stephany, Human Resources Office (Employee of the Quarter); and Kenneth Whitt, Center Operations. Not pictured are, Trung Nguyen, Information Technology & Communications Services; and Jennifer Horner, External Relations (Employee of the Quarter).

“Carrabba’s minestrone soup, sirloin marsala, fettuccine alfredo and my mom’s tiramisú.” Looking up and ahead Randall Crosby, with Division of Blind Services No earlier than April 3 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, WGS SV-2; 8:31 p.m.

No earlier than April 28 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV, GOES-O; 6:24 p.m.

No earlier than May 5 Launch/VAFB: Delta II, STSS-ATRR; TBD “Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I ate them Target May 12 Launch/KSC: Atlantis, STS-125; 1:11 p.m. from first grade all the way to high school.” Target May 23 Landing/KSC Shuttle Landing Facility: TBD Bobby Crocker, with Yang Enterprises Inc. No earlier than May 21 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, LRO/LCROSS; 5:32 p.m.

June Launch/CCAFS: Falcon 9; TBD

Target mid-June Launch/KSC: Endeavour, STS-127; TBD “I’d probably go with a Quiznos’ sub . . . turkey or No earlier than June 16 Launch/CCAFS: Delta II, STSS Demo; TBD Philly steak . . . they’re toasted and really good..”

No earlier than July 8 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV, WGS SV-3; TBD Jeff Wallace, with NASA Target July 11 Launch/KSC: Ares I-X flight test/Launch Pad 39B; TBD

Target Aug. 6 Launch/KSC: Atlantis, STS-128; TBD

No earlier than Aug. 14 Launch/CCAFS: Delta II, GPS IIR-21; TBD

No earlier than Sept. 29 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV, GPS IIF-1; TBD John F. Kennedy Space Center No earlier than Oct. 1 Launch/VAFB: Taurus, Glory; TBD No earlier than Oct. 14 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, SDO; TBD Spaceport News No earlier than Nov. 1 Launch/CCAFS: WISE; TBD

Target Nov. 12 Launch/KSC: Discovery, STS-129; TBD Spaceport News is an official publication of the Kennedy Space Center and is published on alternate Fridays by External Relations in the interest of KSC civil No earlier than Nov. 12 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV, GOES-P; TBD service and contractor employees. Contributions are welcome and should be submitted three weeks before publication December Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, Commercial Payload; TBD to the Media Services Branch, IMCS-440. E-mail submissions can be sent to [email protected] Target Dec. 10 Launch/KSC: Endeavour, STS-130; TBD Managing editor ...... Candrea Thomas Target Feb. 11, 2010 Launch/KSC: Atlantis, STS-131; TBD Editor ...... Frank Ochoa-Gonzales Target April 8, 2010 Launch/KSC: Discovery, STS-132; TBD Copy editor ...... Rebecca Sprague

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