Nov. 12, 2010 Vol. 50, No. 23 Spaceport News John F. Kennedy Space Center - America’s gateway to the universe

www..gov/centers/kennedy/news/snews/spnews_toc.html NASA marks decade on ISS By Linda Herridge Spaceport News hat a difference a decade makes. On the 10-year Wanniversary of continuous human presence aboard the Interna- tional Space Station, Nov. 2, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden com- memorated the milestone by calling the six crew members Discovery, STS-133 currently living and working on the NET Nov. 30 launch orbiting laboratory. ASA has postponed Bolden spoke to Commander the launch of space Doug Wheelock and his fellow shuttle Discovery to Scott Kelly and Shannon N no earlier than 4:02 a.m. EST Walker, and Russian cosmonauts on Nov. 30. The delay will al- Fyodor Yurchikhin, Alexander Kaleri low engineers and technicians and Oleg Skripochka, during a news time to diagnose and repair conference that was broadcast live a hydrogen gas leak detected on NASA TV. while filling the external fuel “This global milestone is tank Nov. 5. They also will fix tremendously significant, both for a foam crack on the external NASA and our partners,” Bolden NASA fuel tank’s liquid oxygen said. “It recognizes the success of an intertank flange. The crack was amazing feat of engineering and a NASA astronauts Doug Wheelock (background), Expedition 25 commander; and Scott Kelly, flight engi- neer, are pictured near fresh fruit floating freely in the Unity node of the International Space Station. discovered during de-tanking magnificent leap forward in the story operations. of human achievement.” gei Krikalev boarded the station. for being the longest continuously “We always place safety The first crew, , On Nov. 2 of this year, the inhabited spacecraft. first,” said NASA Associate launched to the station aboard a station completed 57, 361 orbits of “As we look forward to the next Administrator for Space Op- Russian Soyuz Rocket from the Earth and traveled about 1.5 billion 10 years, taking us through 2020, the erations Bill Gerstenmaier. “It Baikonur Cosmodrome in miles. Men and women from 15 na- space station will serve many roles,” is essential we repair this hard- Kazakhstan on Oct. 31, 2000. Two tions have lived and worked together said Mike Suffredini, ISS program ware before we fly the mission, days later, the Soyuz docked to the on the station and more than 600 manager. “With its permanent human and we will take the time to Zvezda Service Module and U.S. different research and technology presence, it will serve as a foothold properly understand and fix the Bill Shepherd, and Russian experiments have been conducted. failure before we launch.” Cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Ser- On Oct. 25, the station set a record See ISS, Page 2

Inside this issue . . . Future of Launch Pad 39B Heritage: Workplace has become safer What’s going up? LEGOs spark learning

Page 2 Page 3 Page 6 Page 7 Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS Nov. 12, 2010 Medallion honoring Capt. James Cook going up on STS-133 By Steven Siceloff don’t have to be told of its two-week-long experiments hopes that the item will the University of Texas Spaceport News significance. in microgravity. NASA inspire or give hope to English Department, will be “I don’t think you turned twice to Discovery future explorers. a passenger on Discovery. iscovery’s final can take a final voyage of for Return to Flight missions In the case of the As will a plush giraffe, the voyage into orbit a ship of exploration and after accidents with shuttles STS-133 crew, such items mascot of the Hermann Dwill carry symbols not take some moments to Challenger and Columbia, include a medallion from children’s hospital at the reminiscent of the great celebrate its history,” said and it launched the agency’s the U.S. Air Force Institute University of Texas. voyages of other ships by Mission Specialist Michael landmark observatory, the of Technology. STS-133 While many of the the same name. Barratt. “And I think many Hubble Space Telescope. Commander Steve Lindsey items Discovery astronauts A medallion from the people know that our ship, In the last several graduated from the institute are carrying are one-of- Royal Society honoring Discovery, which is a ship years, Discovery has before becoming an a-kind, there also are legendary explorer Capt. of exploration, was named helped shuttles Atlantis and astronaut. hundreds of American and James Cook will be carried after several predecessor Endeavour complete the Also flying on Discovery flags, mission aboard the ships also named Discovery, International Space Station. Discovery will be two small patches and space shuttle during STS-133. Cook’s all ships of exploration.” Astronauts routinely LEGO space shuttles, each bookmarks. As with the third expedition of the vast After all, Discovery carry into space mementos with a tiny toy astronaut, other commemoratives, the Pacific Ocean included a has gone into orbit more from schools, military units to help celebrate a new larger collections are meant ship named HMS Discovery, than any other shuttle, or and tokens from institutions educational partnership to inspire and reward. one of the vessels shuttle any other spacecraft for in the communities they between the toy-building “Again, you can not, Discovery is named after. that matter. Early in its grew up in or live in. After brick maker and NASA. not celebrate the history The astronauts flying career, Discovery provided they come back, the crew Some of the items can and the heritage of this ship Discovery during the a base so astronauts could members typically present be off-beat. For instance, and we plan to continue that STS-133 mission to the retrieve satellites, test new them to the sponsoring a small action figure of certainly after we land,” International Space Station technologies and conduct organization or person in William Shakespeare, from Barratt said.

From ISS, Page 1 “Once we got going, we language wasn’t a barrier. cal path for us succeeding “As we enter the sta- for long-term exploration watched the Space Station We had a common language to establishing that initial tion’s second decade, our into space, being an integral Processing Facility fill up to get things done,” Cabana phase for the space station,” path forward will take us part of testing human endur- with hardware to the point said. Burnett said. deeper into space and ance, equipment reliability where we couldn’t even keep Burnett said one of “Everybody was after expand humanity’s potential and processes essential for it all in there. We had to use the key elements in those that common goal, what farther,” Bolden said. “I space exploration.” the O&C high bay to stack first seven flights, was the do we need to do to make congratulate the entire sta- On Oct. 27, NASA truss structures. It was truly Canadian robotic arm, the it work,” Burnett added. tion team and the thousands marked the milestone with a amazing. SSRMS. “It was the only “Some of the best memories of people worldwide who series of roundtable discus- “When we sat down international element at the I have in my career are the have helped us reach this sions at Kennedy Space Cen- with a technical issue, time that was on the criti- early days of station.” anniversary.” ter, Johnson Space Center, Marshall Spaceflight Center and NASA Headquarters. Kennedy panelists were Center Director Bob Cabana, ISS and Spacecraft Process- ing Director Josie Burnett, ISS, Spacecraft Process- ing Deputy Director Bill Dowdell and Director of The Boeing Company’s Program Management Development David Bethay. The four reminisced about the early days of the program, working with Boeing and international partners, what it took to get ready for space station hardware at Kennedy, and the successes and challenges NASA along the way. Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, left, International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Director Josie Burnett, International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing Deputy Director Bill Dowdell and Director of The Boeing Company’s Program Management Development David Bethay help mark the 10-year “The hardware was a milestone of human life, work and research aboard the International Space Station with a panel discussion that aired on NASA TV on Oct. 27. Johnson Space Center in challenge,” Cabana said. Houston, Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and NASA Headquarters in Washington also hosted panel discussions for the milestone celebration. Nov. 12, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 3 NASA, LEGO join forces for space, math education

By Steven Siceloff partnership. They are expected to Spaceport News stay in their lockers, but astronauts may pull them out during the stronauts on board the mission if they have time, said International Space Station Debbie Biggs, an education will build small model A specialist for International Space spacecraft and working objects in Station National Lab Education orbit and share the experience with Projects. schoolchildren watching on Earth. NASA’s fundamental goal is The students will build some to use the partnership to inspire of the same things in their own children to learn about science, classrooms and see firsthand technical fields, engineering and how differently objects behave in math. Known as STEM education, space, where there is practically no the focus has been a priority for gravity, compared to the familiar the agency throughout this year’s world of Earth. “Summer of Innovation.” The project is one of the first Stephan Turnipseed, president steps in a three-year partnership of LEGO Education North America, NASA/Jack Pfaller between NASA and the Denmark- said LEGO is the right partner based The LEGO Group, maker Leland Melvin, center, NASA’s associate administrator for Education, listens as children and adults build because the bricks encourage kids their vision of the future with LEGO bricks, marking the beginning of a three-year Space Act Agreement of the ubiquitous plastic bricks to develop their inner engineer. meant to spark interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. that have been covering children’s “Children think with their playroom floors for decades. LEGO sets for years. Coleman will assemble LEGO hands,” Turnipseed said. “We’re going to use Melvin and Turnipseed were blocks into models and working Astronaut Dan Tani, a veteran the classroom of space, the delighted with the kids’ enthusiasm. machines. shuttle flier and station resident, International Space Station, to They even joined in the building. She already is practicing with agreed. inspire the next generation,” “This is showing what happens some of the kits with her son and “LEGO taught me a lot of said Leland Melvin, associate when we give kids a challenge, even picking up tips from other things about administrator for NASA Education give them a kids. how things are and a former astronaut. Melvin flew tool that allows Melvin said the LEGO built, what makes “We’re going to two shuttle flights, spending time them to express partnership is crucial for NASA’s sense in terms at the station during both missions. use the classroom their response to education mission because the of structure,” He joined LEGO officials Nov. 1 at that challenge, blocks invite children to think, said Tani, who of space, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to their ideas,” basically, like engineers. After brought his announce the partnership. International Space Turnipseed said. all, building with the toys means daughter to the Two small LEGO shuttles are LEGO and deciding what kind of shape to LEGO activity Station, to inspire the packed inside Discovery for the NASA still are make, what combination of blocks tent. “I don’t next generation . . . STS-133 launch to promote the new working on together make that shape the best think I’d have space is permeated into lesson plans for and what can the thing do when been as good students that it’s finished. They also come up an engineer if it everything we do.” will coincide with designs that will be stronger had not been for with the work depending on how the bricks are things like LEGO Leland Melvin, the astronauts aligned with each other. and construction NASA’s associate perform in LEGO also is releasing four kinds of toys.” administrator for Education space, Biggs kits to the public based on NASA There were said. Some of spacecraft and missions. Rather plenty of children the plans may than being a part of a line of who thought so, too. Visiting even have the students challenge science fiction or fantasy toy kits, LEGO’s activity tent at one of the the astronaut to see who can build though, the NASA sets are being launch viewing sites at Kennedy something quicker. marketed as part of the company’s on Nov. 3, kids took to Astronaut Cady Coleman, “CITY” line, which calls on kids 1 ton of bricks and specialized in training for a mission to the to build things that are part of pieces with barely any instructions. International Space Station later everyday life. They quickly constructed spacecraft this year, is slated to be the first “We believe that space, that of all shapes, some small with astronaut enlisted to build LEGO space exploration, the fact that launch facilities, others large objects in space. we have satellites in the air, it is a replicas of the space shuttle. Some Space shuttle Endeavour will part of everyday life,” Turnipseed made a run at imagining colonies carry nine specialized kits to the said. “The children get it, they on the moon or Mars. station during the STS-134 mission. understand the importance of what NASA/Jack Pfaller “You can make anything you Working with them inside a see- we’re doing.” A student shares his vision of the future with want,” said Tanner, a nine-year-old through glove box so the small “Space is permeated into LEGO bricks as NASA and LEGO began a three- year partnership to inspire students. who has been building pieces don’t get lost in the station, everything we do,” Melvin said. Page 4 SPACEPORT NEWS Nov. 12, 2010 Nov. 12, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 5 Scenes Around Kennedy Space Center

Child Development Center hosts costume parade The Kennedy Space Center Child Develop- ment Center hosted its annual Fall Festival on Oct. 29. Activities included a costume parade and pumpkin patch photographs. NASA/Jack Pfaller Parents and younger The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) sits in its cargo element work stand Nov. 4, where more processing will take place in children, who dressed Kennedy’s Space Station Processing Facility. AMS is designed to operate as an external experiment on the International Space Station. It will use the unique environment of space to study the universe and its origin by searching for dark matter. AMS will fly up as well, watched to the station aboard space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 mission targeted to launch Feb. 27, 2011. as preshoolers in cos- tumes marched around the playground.

Photos by NASA/Troy Cryder

NASA/Jim Grossmann The 600-ton Test Fixture outside the Launch Equipment Test Facility conducts a 500,000-pound pull test of a bridge crane lifting element Oct. 27, which is used to lift space shuttles in the Reader-submitted photo Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. The fixture proofload tests, in tension and compression, a variety of ground support equipment, including slings, lifting beams and other critical lifting Members of Kennedy’s Education Directorate gather in front of the center’s headquarters building to show their support for hardware that require periodic proofloading. breast cancer awareness by wearing pink on Oct. 15. Page 6 SPACEPORT NEWS Nov. 12, 2010 Launch Pad 39B morphing to make more memories By Rebecca Regan that will take humankind to Spaceport News destinations farther than the moon. s the starting line for Ed Mango, NASA’s human expeditions Space Transportation Plan- to the moon, the A ning Office director, was the Russian space station, Launch Director for Ares NASA’s Hubble Space I-X and said he’s confident Telescope, the International Launch Pad 39B hasn’t Space Station and two Re- finished making history with turn to Flight missions for NASA/Jack Pfaller the completion of that suc- the Space Shuttle Program, Rubble begins to build as the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch Pad 39B is dismantled at Kennedy Space Center. the history of Kennedy Starting in 2009, the structure at the pad was no longer needed for NASA’s Space Shuttle Program, so it is being restructured cessful flight test. Space Center’s Launch Pad for future use. The new design will feature a “clean pad” for rockets to come with their own launcher, making it more versatile for “The next time we a number of vehicles. 39B is just beginning. launch a new U.S.-built, As most of the pad’s rotating service structure wooden mats will protect the Building doors,” Perez- human-rated spacecraft it huge steel structures come (RSS), fixed service structure surface from falling debris. Morales said. “If a launch will be led from right here down piece by piece, it may (FSS) and weather protection Earlier this year, United vehicle can be processed and at KSC,” Mango said while seem as though its nearly system, which were added Space Alliance and Abacus rolled out of the VAB, these standing on the crawlerway 45-year-old career is com- in the mid-70s to support the Technology Corp. stripped towers can protect it on the in front of pad B. ing to an end, but the pad’s unique needs of the shuttle the pad of its electronic racks pad.” Mango compares the senior manager, Jose Perez- program. The demolition of and about 1.3 million feet of Another possible visible work being done at the pad Morales, said it is going those structures will happen cabling. Perez-Morales said addition to the pad will be and the planning stages through a major metamor- gradually, though, because the process to replace the a new emergency egress of the Commercial Crew phosis to support a new set the company taking them archaic copper wiring with system, which Perez-Mo- Development efforts that he of launch vehicles. down, LVI Environmental more-advanced fiber optic rales said resembles a roller is leading at Kennedy to a “Most of the systems Services Inc., is prohibited wires already has begun. The coaster. Other work could football analogy. that we are installing out at from using explosives. pad’s iconic orbiter access include new brickwork in the “For those that under- pad B are ground systems,” “We wanted to protect arm and gaseous oxygen pad’s flame trench. stand football, right now Perez-Morales told media on the concrete surface of the (GOX) vent arm have been All of these changes are we are in the pre-season,” Nov. 1. “That means we can pad,” Perez-Morales said. acquired by Kennedy’s expected to support NASA’s Mango said. “Development support basically any vehicle “So everything is being cut visitor complex for future future expeditions, includ- stages will be the regular that will come to the pad on and brought down to the exhibits. ing commercial-developed season, flight tests will be the a mobile launcher, or our floor.” Current work includes vehicles that will take the playoffs and when we launch new mobile launcher.” As a double-layer of the refurbishment of the space agency’s astronauts to a NASA crew to the Inter- The transformation protection, Perez-Morales liquid oxygen and liquid low Earth orbit and NASA- national Space Station . . . includes the removal of the said steel plates and large hydrogen storage tanks that developed heavy-lift vehicles that’ll be the Super Bowl.” reside on opposite sides of the pad perimeter. “The work we’re doing to the tanks will extend their operational lifetime by about 20 years,” Perez-Morales said. Three new lightning towers, constructed by Ivey’s Construction Inc. of Mer- ritt Island, Fla., that were in place for the Ares I-X flight test in October 2009 will remain. Perez-Morales said in the future each tower will be outfitted with four levels of weather monitoring sys-

NASA/Jim Grossmann tems as well as high-speed Jose Perez-Morales, NASA’s Launch Pad 39B senior manager shares plans of cameras to keep track of NASA/Jim Grossmann the the transformation of Launch Pad 39B with news media at Kennedy Space lightning strikes. Media learn about the future plans for Launch Pad 39B from Ed Mango, NASA’s Center. The transformation includes the removal of the rotating service structure “The towers are about Space Transportation Planning Office director at Kennedy Space Center. If ap- (RSS) and fixed service structure (FSS), refurbishment of the liquid oxygen and 600 feet tall and we designed propriations are provided for NASA’s current Authorization Act, those plans would liquid hydrogen tanks, and the upgrade of about 1.3 million feet of cable. The new include a robust commercial space program with multiple customers, multiple lightning protection system, which was in place for the October 2009 launch of them to support a vehicle as providers and multiple systems that take Americans to the International Space Ares I-X, will remain. tall as the Vehicle Assembly Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations. Nov. 12, 2010 SPACEPORT NEWS Page 7 Remembering Our Heritage Legacy of fallen workers is safer work place By Kay Grinter Industrial Area in 2006. Reference Librarian “Whenever these things happen, which is very egacy of fallen work- rarely,” Barker explained, ers is safer conditions “we do everything we can across the agency L to learn and implement and the nation requirements so they never “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, happen again.” it’s what we know that ain’t “A thorough investiga- so,” said American humorist tion followed the roofer’s Will Rogers in his down-to- death,” Barker said. “It was Earth fashion. a lengthy process. Teams His common-sense worked on various aspects interpretation of human of the solution for months. behavior partially may ex- “Consultants were plain the accident at Launch brought in to provide their Pad 39A on the morning of particular perspectives. Ev- March 19, 1981. ery aspect of a recommenda- Launch of STS-1, the tion was documented and an first space shuttle mission, associated cost determined. was less than a month away. Every organization involved A countdown demonstra- had to concur or ‘buy in’ to tion test was concluding at the new requirements. Then, the pad. A gaseous nitrogen additional safety training purge of shuttle Columbia’s was developed to support aft compartment, part of for NASA them.” the test, was extended to Space View Park is directly across the Indian River Lagoon from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center. The park claims “Following the inves- determine whether nitrogen to be the first and only walk in the nation that honors America’s astronauts as well as the men and women behind the scenes tigation, the local standards intruded into the crew cabin who helped America lead the world in space exploration. Here, the names of those who died on the job at Kennedy and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in service to America’s space program are engraved on one of the Apollo memorial’s pylons. set to prevent a similar in- during the purge of the for- cident were stricter than the ward fuselage cavity area. The ac- Foundation OSHA standards,” Barker Collection of the new cident made na- “Whenever these things happen, which and located in said. “Anyone working data was added to the test tional headlines. Space View above four feet now must schedule just three days is very rarely . . . we do everything we “Through- Park on the have positive fall protec- before. out the whole can to learn and implement requirements Indian River tion, such as tethering, or NASA alum Joel country, steps in Titusville, hand rails. This requirement Reynolds, Kennedy Space so they never happen again.” were taken to Fla., their has been adopted not just Center’s safety division names are en- ensure that a at Kennedy, but across the chief at the time of the ac- similar accident graved on one Dave Barker, entire agency.” cident, recalled, “We knew would not occur of the Apollo chief of NASA’s Institutional Safety Knowledge sharing, that the presence of gaseous in any work- memorial’s and Mission Assurance Division Barker said, is critical to nitrogen was dangerous, places where in- pylons. NASA’s success and work- but none of us realized the ert gasses were at Kennedy Space Center STS-1 gas was still flowing in the present or where pilot and Ken- ers’ safety. aft compartment after the pipes containing nedy’s former countdown test was com- inert gasses passed,” Reyn- program on the computers Center Direc- More online pleted.” olds said, “and at Kennedy, in the firing rooms. Test tor Bob Crippen officiated. An all-clear to enter the low-oxygen-level monitors conductors and engineers Today, Dave Barker The NASA Lessons shuttle was called at what were installed at the pad, now could view the status is chief of NASA’s Institu- Learned database system originally would have been in all processing facilities, of all hazardous systems on tional Safety and Mission is the official, reviewed the end of the purge. Several and anywhere else that inert one screen.” Assurance Division at Ken- lessons learned from NASA employees of Rockwell gasses were used and people On Oct. 19, a memo- nedy. programs and projects International, the shuttle’s might be working. rial was dedicated to those In the 20 years he has and contains about 1,800 prime contractor, entered “Tighter control of who died on the job at worked at Kennedy, there entries. Public access Columbia’s aft compart- pad access during and after Kennedy and Cape Canav- has been only one accident to select entries in the ment and passed out. Others hazardous operations was eral Air Force Station in resulting in a fatality on database is available at attempted a rescue and also established, and a safety service to America’s space Kennedy property: a roofer https://nen.nasa.gov/web/ were overcome. In the after- menu was built into the program. Sponsored by the died from a fall from the ll/public-nasa-ll-system. math, three workers died. launch processing system U.S. Space Walk of Fame top of a warehouse in the Page 8 SPACEPORT NEWS Nov. 12, 2010

NASA Employees of the Month: November Habitat for Humanity, Kennedy women unite to build a home in Cocoa he Women Build Project for Brevard County’s More photos online Habitat for Human- T To follow the build and to see ity completed its fifth week of pictures of Kennedy’s team, visit building a home with the help www.facebook.com/pages/ of women from Kennedy Space WOMEN-BUILD-Project-for- Center on Oct. 30. Center Deputy Brevard-County-Habitat- Director Janet Petro talked to the for-Humanity-October- 2010/311934622272?v=wall volunteers during lunch as part of the Women Build outreach and networking goals. helped build the roof, she also is The Federally Employed Wom- making sure the importance of NASA/Tony Gray en (FEW) supported the team community involvement is passed Employees for the month of November are, from left, Kenneth Nowak, Launch Integration Office; Julie with breakfast and lunch. Petro on by bringing her daughter, Caimi, Safety and Mission Assurance; Anne Chrest, Center Operations; and Stephen Bulloch, Launch not only grabbed a hammer and Hannah. Vehicle Processing. Not pictured are Josiel Torres, Information Technology and Communications Ser- vices; Joseph Schuh, Engineering Directorate; Wesley Johnson, Engineering Directorate; Jose Nunez, International Space Station and Spacecraft Processing; Dustin Dyer, Launch Services Program; Christy Rivera, Constellation Project Office; and Gary “Mike” Felker, Procurement Office.

Looking up and ahead . . .

Targeted for Nov. 18 Launch/CCAFS: Delta IV Heavy, NROL-32; TBD

No Earlier Than Nov. 30 Launch/KSC: Discovery, STS-133; 4:02 a.m. EST

No Earlier Than Dec. 7 Launch/CCAFS: SpaceX Falcon 9, COTS-1;

Targeted for Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, SBIRS GEO-1; TBD Jan. 22, 2011

Targeted for February Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, GPS IIF-2; TBD

Feb. 23, 2011 Launch/VAFB: Taurus, Glory; 5:10 a.m. EST For NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Deputy Director Janet Petro, second from left, her daughter, Hannah, Targeted for Launch/KSC: Endeavour, STS-134; 3:35 p.m. EST members of Federally Employed Women (FEW) and Kennedy workers join Brevard County’s Feb. 27, 2011 Habitat for Humanity to build a home for Roderick White on Oct. 30 in Cocoa, Fla.

No Earlier Than April 14, 2011 Launch/CCAFS: SpaceX Falcon 9, Dragon C2; TBD

No Earlier Than June 6, 2011 Launch/CCAFS: SpaceX Falcon 9, Dragon C3; TBD John F. Kennedy Space Center No Earlier Than June 9, 2011 Launch/VAFB: Delta II, Aquarius / SAC-D Satellite; TBD Spaceport News Aug. 5, 2011 Launch/CCAFS: Atlas V, Juno; Launch Window 11:54 a.m. to 12:24 p.m. EDT 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 Aug.15, 2011 Launch/ Kwajalein Atoll, Reagan Test Site: service and contractor employees. Pegasus, NuSTAR; TBD Contributions are welcome and should be submitted three weeks before publication to the Media Services Branch, IMCS-440. E-mail submissions can be sent to [email protected] Sept. 8, 2011 Launch/CCAFS: Delta II Heavy, GRAIL; 8:35:52 a.m. and 9:14:35 a.m. EDT Managing editor ...... Candrea Thomas Editor ...... Frank Ochoa-Gonzales Oct. 18, 2011 Launch/VAFB: Delta II, NPP; TBD Copy editor ...... Rebecca Regan

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