May 9, 2006 www.nasa.gov Vol. 11, No. 34 Discovery moves to Vehicle Presentation by astronaut Assembly Building this week John Phillips today Shuttle Update: Preparations Williams will join Expedition 14 Make plans now to attend! to move Space Shuttle Discovery to in progress and serve as a flight Submit your requests to your training the Vehicle Assembly Building are engineer after traveling to the station coordinators by May 26 for a cost ongoing. Rollover from the Orbiter on space shuttle mission STS-116. savings to NASA, your company, or Processing Facility is expected to This will be the first space flight for yourself if you are funding this take place late this week pending the Williams. worthwhile program. After May 26, the registration cost increases by $75. outcome of the Orbiter Rollover Astronaut Presentation — Go to the Web site, www.fewntp.org, Review. Expedition 11 astronaut John L. for further workshop information and As a precautionary measure to Phillips is making a post-flight registration forms. provide protection from the tin- presentation to KSC employees today whiskering phenomenon, a reaction at 9 a.m. in the O&C Mission Hurricane Awareness Training jet driver was replaced in an avionics Briefing Room. Because seating is — Hurricane Awareness Training is bay on Discovery and successfully limited, allocations have been made scheduled May 10 at 1 p.m. in the retested last week. Whiskering is a to all organizations. If you cannot KSC Training Auditorium. All phenomenon identified decades ago personally attend this presentation, hurricane coordinators and alternates whereby certain metals, primarily tin, you can view the event live on are required to attend, but anyone zinc and cadmium, develop pure CCTV, Channel 23. For more may attend with permission of his or metallic crystalline extrusions. information, please contact your her supervisor. The session will last ISS Update: NASA astronauts organization's Space Flight about one hour and will feature Michael Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Awareness representative. speakers from Channel 9 (WFTV), the 45th Weather Squadron, KSC Williams and Russian cosmonaut Federally Employed Women Senior Management, and KSC's Mikhail Tyurin have been named as Training — FEW will hold the 37th Emergency Preparedness Office. the 14th crew of the International annual National Training Program Space Station. Expedition 14 is July 17-21 at the Atlanta Marriott Contest Winner — Winner of scheduled to begin this fall. Marquis in Atlanta. The theme this the 2006 Earth Day "Guess the Lopez-Alegria, a veteran of three year is "New Connections – New Electric Bill" contest is Kim Osgood space flights, will command Expedi- Directions." FEW's professional of SGS. Osgood's entry was closest to tion 14 and serve as the NASA training programs are designed to the actual April FPL bill for the KSC station science officer for the six- develop and/or enhance critical skills Industrial and Launch Complex 39 month mission. He and Tyurin, a for the federal and civilian work force Areas -- $1,683,639 -- and was only veteran station crew member from alike. FEW projects more than 2,000 off by $4,178. Congratulations, Kim! Expedition 3, are in training to launch women and men from federal and aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in Did You Know? Today is state government and the private September. Tyurin will be the Soyuz National Teacher Day, an appropriate sector, will attend this event. A trade commander and flight engineer. time to thank all the teachers you show runs concurrently with the know for their contributions. National Training Program. KSC Countdown is published every Tuesday & Thursday. Deadlines are 10 a.m. Mondays & Wednesdays. E-mail news to [email protected]. For questions or information, e-mail or call 321-867-2815. Find KSC Countdown on the Internet at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/countdown/countdown-toc.html .