NASA Announces Shuttle Prelaunch Events And Countdown Details
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- News conferences, events and operating hours
for the news center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., are set for
the upcoming launch of space shuttle Discovery.
Shuttle Discovery's STS-131 mission to the International Space Station
is scheduled to lift off at 6:21 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 5.
Detailed lists of countdown milestones, news briefing times and
participants, and hours of operation for Kennedy's news center and
media credentialing office are available at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_
A NASA blog will update the countdown beginning April 5 at 1:15 a.m.
Originating from Kennedy, the blog is the definitive Internet source
for information leading up to launch. During the mission, visitors to
NASA's shuttle Web site can read about the crew's progress and watch
the mission's three spacewalks live.
As Discovery's flight concludes, the NASA blog will detail the
spacecraft's return to Earth. For NASA's launch blog and continuous
mission updates, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
The NASA News Twitter feed will be updated throughout the shuttle
launch countdown, mission and landing. To follow, visit:
http://www.twitter.com/nasa
Mission Specialists Clayton Anderson and Naoko Yamazaki of the Japan
Aerospace Exploration Agency are sending updates about their training
to their Twitter accounts and plan to tweet from orbit during the
mission. They can be followed, respectively, at:
http://www.twitter.com/Astro_
and
http://www.twitter.com/Astro_
For NASA TV streaming video, scheduling and downlink information,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Source: NASA
