Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-237

CHALLENGES OF LIVING AND WORKING ABOARD THE SPACE STATION: NASA ASTRONAUT NICOLE STOTT AVAILABLE FOR TV INTERVIEWS



HOUSTON -- After three months living aboard the International Space
Station, NASA astronaut Nicole Stott will be available for satellite
interviews from Houston between 6 a.m. and 7:45 a.m. CST on Thursday,
Dec. 17.

To arrange an interview via NASA Television, journalists should
contact Derek Sollosi at 281-792-7515 or by e-mail to
derek.sollosi-1@nasa.gov by 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 16. B-roll of
Stott's flight will air from 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. Dec. 17.

Stott, of Clearwater, Fla., served as a flight engineer for
Expeditions 20 and 21 aboard the station and joined five other crew
members living on the orbiting complex. She was the chief robotics
operator, responsible for capturing, berthing and later releasing the
first Japanese cargo ship flown to the station. In addition to
working on multiple scientific studies, she also conducted a
6-and-a-half-hour spacewalk in September to continue station
assembly.

Stott was the final station resident to fly to and from the complex on
the space shuttle. She launched on space shuttle Discovery in August
and returned to Earth aboard shuttle Atlantis in November. Stott
spent a total of 91 days in space, 87 of them aboard the station.
Stott has been assigned to fly on the STS-133 mission in September
2010, currently the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle
Program.

The NASA Live Interview Media Outlet channel will be used for the
interviews. The channel is a digital satellite C-band downlink by
uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite AMC 6, transponder 5C,
located at 72 degrees west, downlink frequency 3785.5 Mhz based on a
standard C-band 5150 Mhz L.O., vertical polarity, FEC is 3/4, data
rate is 6.00 Mhz, symbol rate is 4.3404 Mbaud, transmission DVB,
minimum Eb/N0 is 6.0 dB.

The interviews also will be broadcast live on NASA TV. For streaming
video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


For complete biographical information about Stott, visit:



http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/stott-np.html


For more information about the International Space Station, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov/station


For more information about the space shuttle, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle