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Space Reporter's Handbook Mission Supplement CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook - Mission Supplement! Page 1 The CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook Mission Supplement Shuttle Mission STS-124: Space Station Assembly Flight 1J Written and Edited By William G. Harwood Aerospace Writer/Consultant [email protected] CBS News!!! 7/4/11 Page 2 ! CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook - Mission Supplement Revision History Editor's Note Mission-specific sections of the Space Reporter's Handbook are posted as flight data becomes available. Readers should check the CBS News "Space Place" web site in the weeks before a launch to download the latest edition: http://www.cbsnews.com/network/news/space/current.html DATE RELEASE NOTES 05/28/08 Initial STS-124 release Introduction This document is an outgrowth of my original UPI Space Reporter's Handbook, prepared prior to STS-26 for United Press International and updated for several flights thereafter due to popular demand. The current version is prepared for CBS News. As with the original, the goal here is to provide useful information on U.S. and Russian space flights so reporters and producers will not be forced to rely on government or industry public affairs officers at times when it might be difficult to get timely responses. All of these data are available elsewhere, of course, but not necessarily in one place. The STS-124 version of the CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook was compiled from NASA news releases, JSC flight plans, the Shuttle Flight Data and In-Flight Anomaly List, NASA Public Affairs and the Flight Dynamics office (abort boundaries) at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Sections of NASA's STS-124 press kit, crew bios and the mission TV schedule are downloaded via the Internet, formatted and included in this document. Word-for-word passages (other than lists) are clearly indicated. The SRH is a work in progress and while every effort is made to insure accuracy, errors are inevitable in a document of this nature and readers should double check critical data before publication. As always, questions, comments and suggestions for improvements are always welcome. And if you spot a mistake or a typo, please let me know! Written, Compiled and Edited By William G. Harwood CBS News Space Consultant LC-39 Press Site Kennedy Space Center, Florida 32899 [email protected] 7/4/11!! ! !!! CBS News CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook - Mission Supplement! Page 3 Table of Contents Topic Page NASA Media Information .............................................................................4 NASA Public Affairs Contacts .......................................................................5 Acronyms Used in This Document ...............................................................5 Useful URLs .................................................................................................6 CBS News STS-124 Mission Overview .........................................................7 Current Space Station Configuration ............................................................17 Quick-Look Mission Data ............................................................................21 Quick-Look Shuttle Program Statistics ..........................................................22 Quick-Look Crew Data ................................................................................23 Quick-Look Space Demographics (post STS-120) .........................................24 Quick-Look Space Demographics (post STS-124) .........................................25 Quick-Look Space Fatalities .........................................................................26 STS-124 NASA Crew Biographies .................................................................27 Commander Mark Kelly ...............................................................................27 Pilot Kenneth Ham .......................................................................................29 MS-1 Karen Nyberg, Ph.D. ...........................................................................31 MS-2/FE/EV-2 Ronald Garan .........................................................................33 MS-3/EV1 Michael Fossum ..........................................................................35 MS-4 Akihiko Hoshide .................................................................................37 MS-5/ISS-17 FE (up) Gregory Chamitoff, Ph.D. .............................................39 ISS-17 NASA Crew Biographies ...................................................................41 ISS-17 Commander Sergei Volkov ................................................................41 ISS-17 Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko .......................................................43 ISS-17/MS-5 (down) Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman ...................................45 STS-124/ISS-16 Crew Photographs ...............................................................47 STS-124 Launch Windows ...........................................................................49 STS-124 Personnel .......................................................................................50 STS-124 Crew Seating ..................................................................................51 STS-124 Flight Hardware .............................................................................52 Discovery Flight History ...............................................................................53 STS-124 Countdown ....................................................................................55 Landing Weather Guidelines ........................................................................59 STS-124 Ascent Events Summary ..................................................................63 STS-124 Trajectory Data ...............................................................................64 STS-124 Summary Timeline ..........................................................................67 STS-124 Television Schedule ........................................................................75 Appendix 1: Shuttle Flight Profile and Abort Summaries ..............................81 Appendix 2: Remembering Challenger and Columbia ..................................93 CBS News!!! 7/4/11 Page 4 ! CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook - Mission Supplement NASA Media Information NASA Television Transmission NASA Television is now carried on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) with modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 36.86 and FEC 3/4 is needed for reception. NASA TV Multichannel Broadcast includes: Public Services Channel (Channel 101); the Education Channel (Channel 102) and the Media Services Channel (Channel 103). The new Digital NASA TV will have four digital channels: 1. NASA Public Service ("Free to Air"), featuring documentaries, archival programming, and coverage of NASA missions and events; 2. NASA Education Services ("Free to Air/Addressable"), dedicated to providing educational programming to schools, educational institutions and museums; 3. NASA Media Services ("Addressable"), for broadcast news organizations; and 4. NASA Mission Operations (Internal Only) The new digital NASA Public Service Channel will be streamed on the Web. All you'll need is access to a computer. ... You may want to check with your local cable or satellite service provider whether it plans to continue carrying the NASA Public Service "Free to Air" Channel. If your C-Band-sized satellite dish is capable of receiving digital television signals, you'll still need a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)-compliant MPEG-2 Integrated Receiver Decoder, or IRD, to get the new Digital NASA's Public Service "Free to Air" Channel. An IRD that receives "Free to Air" programming like the new Digital NASA Public Service Channel can be purchased from many sources, including "off-the-shelf" at your local electronics store. The new Digital NASA TV will be on the same satellite (AMC 6) as current analog NASA TV, but on a different transponder (17). In Alaska and Hawaii, we'll be on AMC 7, Transponder 18. Here is additional satellite information you may find helpful: Satellite Downlink for continental North America: Uplink provider = Americom Satellite = AMC 6 Transponder = 17C 72 Degrees West Downlink frequency: 4040 Mhz Polarity: Vertical FEC = 3/4 Data Rate r= 36.860 Mhz Symbol = 26.665 Ms Transmission = DVB "Public" Programming: Program = 101, Video PID = 111, Audio PID = 114 "Education" Programming: Program = 102, Video PID = 121, Audio PID = 124 "Media" Programming = Program = 103, Video PID = 1031, Audio PID = 1034 "SOMD" Programming = Program = 104, Video PID = 1041, Audio PID = 1044 Home Page: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html Daily Programming: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html Videofile Programming: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt NTV on the Internet: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Web.html 7/4/11!! ! !!! CBS News CBS News Space Reporter's Handbook - Mission Supplement! Page 5 NASA Public Affairs Contacts Kennedy 321-867-2468 (voice) Space 321-867-2692 (fax) Center 321-867-2525 (code-a-phone) Johnson 281-483-5811 (voice) Space 281-483-2000 (fax) Center 281-483-8600 (code-a-phone) Marshall 256-544-0034 (voice) Space 256-544-5852 (fax) Flight 256-544-6397 (code-a-phone). Center Acronyms Used in This Document Abbreviation Meaning Alt Maximum altitude, or apogee, for shuttle
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