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Scenes Around Kennedy Space Center April 1, 2011 Vol. 51, No. 6 Spaceport News John F. Kennedy Space Center - America’s gateway to the universe www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/snews/spnews_toc.html Armored M113s ready for any emergency role By Steven Siceloff slits in another hatch, but Spaceport News that means awkwardly trying to kneel or stand in umbling, cramped, the middle of the rest of the heavy and lacking crew. Ra big field of view, Most of the firefighters the M113 wouldn’t seem to feel the launch more than be a good candidate for an see it because the thunder ambulance. It doesn’t even thoroughly shakes the have a steering wheel. But it 10-ton carrier. has something essential for If an emergency call a NASA rescue mission at comes in before launch, the the launch pad: armor. driver runs in and gets the Basically a bunker vehicle moving in seconds, on tracks, the M113 is letting one of the other crew a Vietnam-era armored members work the lever to personnel carrier that offers lift the ramp. the astronauts a safe vehicle CLICK ON PHOTO NASA/Kim Shiflett The astronauts and to get out of danger. It also Battalion Chief David Seymour provides supervision while space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-134 crew members participate in pad workers have limited offers firefighters heavy M113 armored personnel carrier training at Kennedy Space Center. An M113 is kept at the foot of the launch pad in case an air sources, so the rescue protection in case they have emergency exit from the pad is needed and every shuttle crew is trained on driving the vehicle before launch. Space shuttle teams would work to get to go into danger to retrieve Endeavour’s six crew members are at Kennedy for the launch countdown dress rehearsal called the Terminal Countdown them to safety in less than Demonstration Test (TCDT) and related training. To learn about STS-134 mission, click on the photo. the flight crew and launch 10 minutes from the time pad personnel. neither the astronauts nor with the spacecraft or the their gear, including silver they get the rescue call. “These things are emergency crews have to gigantic Saturn V rocket. protection suits, an airpack They constantly train and virtually indestructible,” worry about debris raining They serve the same role for and an air mask. They close adjust methods to shave off said David Seymour, down on them when they the shuttle. all the hatches and raise the seconds. battalion chief and the lead are inside an M113. “We’re here for the back ramp. “I don’t care about for the pad rescue team at “We never know astronauts, for the closeout The inside of the M113 anything except getting my Kennedy Space Center. what to expect, we always crew, whoever’s up there,” is hardly spacious, so the guys on the pad surface NASA has a different prepare for the worst,” said Seymour said. firefighters have to curl their safely,” Myer said. “If I kind of rescue vehicle Alan Myer, an M113 driver Three are on hand on legs up tight. Only the driver run over signs, I don’t care. because it has to make a and firefighter. launch day. Two stand by can see out consistently, I will not drive through a different kind of rescue NASA began using less than a mile from the looking through four slits building, because that could if a space shuttle crew is surplus Army M113s during launch pad. A few minutes facing the pad. The others hurt us, but if I have to in danger. In the unlikely the Apollo Program in case before liftoff, the firefighters in the vehicle have to take worst-case scenario, an emergency developed get inside wearing all turns looking through the See TCDT, Page 2 Inside this issue . FIRST Robotics Heritage: Stardust sends last signal Donating life AMS packed up Page 2 Page 3 Page 5 Page 7 Page 2 SPACEPORT NEWS April 1, 2011 Workers donate blood, register in bone marrow program By Linda Herridge Gwizdalski said. for both her and her second Spaceport News Michael Barth, a NASA child, so she understands civil engineer, gave blood how important being a do- ourteen years ago, March 28 at the SSPF, and nor can be. Gena Henderson, an then went inside the facil- “What a miracle this engineer at Kennedy F ity’s lobby to register with would be if my bone mar- Space Center, gave blood the NMDP. row would help to save and registered with the Barth has given blood National Marrow Donor someone’s life,” Henderson for many years and dur- said. “I’m overjoyed for the Program (NMDP) during ing each Kennedy blood person who needs it.” a donor drive at the center. drive since he arrived at the Joe Frakes, a Boeing Fast forward to 2011, and center three years ago. Barth technician, registered with Henderson now is a match said his wife is a nurse and the NMDP in 1993. He for someone in dire need of knows firsthand how impor- was a perfect match for a a marrow transplant. NASA/Jack Pfaller tant it is to donate blood. In fact, Henderson, A Kennedy worker donates blood during a blood drive and bone marrow donor “Giving blood does 28-year-old woman in 1995 now the Engineering Man- registry drive in Florida’s Blood Center’s Big Red Bus at the Operations and Sup- and went through the mar- port Building I on March 10. save lives,” Barth said. agement and Integration According to Kennedy row donor procedure. Services branch chief in the There were 155 units of Viera Hospital,” Scott said. blood and bone marrow “It’s the most reward- center’s Engineering Direc- blood donated. Some donors Angela Solorio, a secre- donor drive coordinator Ste- ing thing I’ve ever done,” torate, is a perfect match. with a rare blood type, such tary with C&C International, phen Pilkenton, every year, Frakes said. “It felt good to What that means, according as O negative, were given signed up with the NMDP thousands of adults and help someone. I would do it to the NMDP, is that nine the option of donating us- on her way to give blood at children need bone marrow again if called upon.” out of nine markers match. ing the ALYX automated the OSB I on March 10. transplants, a procedure that She is waiting for the next procedure that takes only “I’m retired military, may be their only chance for Did you know? step in the process. the red cells and returns the so it’s something we do survival. Pilkenton joined Florida’s Blood Centers platelets and plasma to the for each other. And I was the marrow donor program More than 4.5 million brought the Big Red Bus to patient during the donor always interested in being in 2004 and was later se- patients need blood transfu- several Kennedy facilities process. a bone marrow donor,” lected as a possible donor. sions each year in the U.S. during the month of March. Linda Scott, the north Solorio said. and Canada. “Marrow transplants Only 38 percent of the U.S. Bone marrow registration Brevard donor development Tina Gwizdalski is are a potential cure and population is eligible to donate drives were held in conjunc- coordinator with Florida’s an NMDP specialist with sometimes the last hope for blood -- less than 10 percent tion at the Operations and Blood Centers said that all Florida’s Blood Centers’ people suffering from many do annually. Support Building I and the donations stay in the local Orlando office. cancers and other blood About one in seven people Space Station Processing community. She said that the simple disorders,” Pilkenton said. entering the hospital need Facility, which led to the “We are the sole pro- act of filling out a consent “Minority participation in blood. One pint of blood can save registration of 26 workers vider of blood and blood form and completing a the marrow donor program up to three lives. with the NMDP. products for Parrish Medical buccal cheek swab is the is desperately needed and Other blood drive loca- Center, Cape Canaveral first step in becoming a strongly encouraged.” More information tions included the Operations Hospital, Wuesthoff medical potential match for someone Henderson, who has and Support Building II, the centers in Rockledge and in the U.S. or even another three children, was the For more information on Operations and Checkout Melbourne, Holmes Re- country. recipient of two blood trans- the National Marrow Donor Program, visit Building and the Launch gional Medical Center, Palm “The NMDP fusions during childbirth. www.marrow.org. Equipment Services shop. Bay Hospital and the new reaches around the world,” One of these was lifesaving That’s the routine all crews Each lever controls one of the “These can be fun,” Myer said. From TCDT, Page 1 practice during the Terminal tracks on the M113. Push both of “It’s exciting.” Countdown Demonstration Test, them forward and the vehicle goes The fun aspect for the drive over these logs protecting the or TCDT. The STS-134 crew took forward. There’s a gas pedal to firefighters does not obscure the crawlerway, I don’t care. I want to part in the training March 30 as they determine how quickly it goes. Pull seriousness with which they train get them to the pad in one piece as prepared to launch on space shuttle the right lever to turn right, pull for emergencies.
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