Michael Curie
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
michael.curie@nasa.gov
Jay Bolden
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
jay.e.bolden@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-236
ASTRONAUT, FOOD SCIENTIST TO DISCUSS THANKSGIVING IN SPACE
HOUSTON - Please pass the irradiated smoked turkey, thermostable yams
and freeze-dried green beans. The International Space Station is
stocked and ready for an out-of-this-world Thanksgiving feast.
The three station crew members, one American and two Russians, will
enjoy a holiday dinner floating 220 miles above Earth. In addition to
the traditional holiday favorites, albeit with a space-food flair,
their menu will include NASA's own cornbread dressing, as well as
home style potatoes and cranberries. And, along with the best view
from any Thanksgiving table, cherry-blueberry cobbler is available
for dessert.
Vickie Kloeris, NASA food scientist and manager of the space station
food system, and astronaut Clay Anderson are available for live
satellite interviews on Wednesday, Nov. 23, from 6-7:30 a.m. CST to
discuss the station's Thanksgiving menu. A veteran of two space
flights, Anderson spent 152 days living aboard the station in 2007
and returned to the outpost in 2010 as a member of space shuttle
mission STS-131. Related b-roll will precede the interviews at 5:30
a.m.
To arrange an interview, news media representatives must contact the
Johnson Space Center newsroom at 281-483-5111 no later than 3 p.m. on
Nov. 22.
Participating media must tune into NASA Television's Live Interview
Media Outlet channel. The channel is a digital satellite C-band
downlink by uplink provider Americom. It is on satellite SES 2,
transponder 9C, located at 87 degrees west, downlink frequency 3865.5
MHz based on a standard C-band, horizontal downlink polarity. FEC is
3/4, data rate is 6.0 Mbps, symbol rate is 4.3404 Msps, transmission
DVB-S, 4:2:0.
NASA astronaut Dan Burbank and Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and
Anatoly Ivanishin arrived at the station Tuesday and will spend this
holiday season aboard the orbiting laboratory. They are scheduled to
live and work aboard the station until March, conducting dozens of
experiments and preparing for the arrival of new commercial resupply
spacecraft.
Burbank recently described the station crew's plans for celebrating
Thanksgiving. For footage of his description, which includes displays
of food that will make up their holiday feast, visit:
http://go.nasa.gov/tk7dHj For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the space station and its crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
