NASA News: NASA Television Covers Station Cargo Craft Departure And Arrival

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage during a busy
International Space Station traffic pattern, when one cargo
spacecraft departs and another arrives.

The European Space Agency's "Johannes Kepler" Automated Transfer
Vehicle-2 (ATV2) is scheduled to undock from the station's Zvezda
service module port at 9:48 a.m. CDT on Monday, June 20, and will
burn up in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.

ATV2, the second unpiloted European cargo ship, delivered seven tons
of food and supplies and is supporting a series of reboosts to raise
the station's orbit. It has been linked to the station since
February. NASA TV will incorporate coverage of the undocking into the
"ISS Update" hour, which will air at 9:30 a.m. Monday.

The next day, the Russian Progress 43 cargo ship will launch from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9:38 a.m. (8:38 p.m. Baikonur
time), carrying nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the
six-person Expedition 28 crew. The launch will be part of the NASA TV
"ISS Update" that day, which will air at 9 a.m. NASA TV will provide
live coverage of the Progress docking beginning at 11 a.m. on
Thursday, June 23.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For International Space Station information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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NASA Reveals New Batch Of Space Program Artifacts

WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting eligible education institutions,
museums and other organizations to examine and request space program
artifacts online. The items represent significant human spaceflight
technologies, processes and accomplishments from NASA's past and
present space exploration programs.

On Wednesday, June 15, NASA posted a seventh batch of artifacts. The
National Air & Space Museum, NASA visitor centers and exhibit
managers, other federal agencies, eligible education and non-profit
institutions, public museums, libraries and planetariums can view and
request space artifacts at:

http://gsaxcess.gov/NASAWel.htm

This opportunity is being offered through NASA's partnership with the
General Services Administration. Together they developed the
first-of-its-kind Web-based, electronic viewing portal for space artifacts.

These artifacts are from the Space Shuttle, Hubble Space Telescope,
Apollo and International Space Station Programs. Examples of
artifacts include a space shuttle payload bay mockup, cockpit seats
and Apollo era glove assemblies.

Each artifact will be available for 42 days. For the first 21 days,
internal organizations such as NASA visitor centers, agency exhibit
managers and the Smithsonian Institution may request artifacts.
External organizations, including museums, schools, universities,
libraries, and planetariums, may request artifacts the following 21
days. After the screening period closes, and at the completion of the
request process, organizations will be notified about the status of
their request.

Artifacts will be incrementally released when they no longer are
needed by NASA and in accordance with export control laws and
regulations. Artifacts are provided free of charge, however,
requesting organizations must pay for shipping and any special
handling costs.

To date, approximately 28,500 items of historic space significance
have been offered, mainly from the shuttle, with contributions from
Hubble, Apollo, Mercury, Gemini and space station programs.
Approximately 3,000 artifacts have been requested.

For information about NASA's space shuttle transition and artifacts, visit

http://www.nasa.gov/transition

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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