Educator Mission Specialist Joe Acaba meets the Press



Educator Mission Specialist Joe Acaba meets the Press

NASA's New Astronauts Meet The Press

Fresh from flight training and their first head-over-heels sample of weightlessness, NASA's astronaut candidates are available to meet with the news media Thursday in Houston at 3 p.m. EDT.

To attend the event at Houston's Ellington Field or to arrange telephone interviews, contact NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) newsroom at: 281/483-5111 by 4 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Video and still imagery of the new astronauts' flight training, including their first experience aboard NASA's "Weightless Wonder" aircraft, is also available.

NASA TV will air astronaut training video files beginning at noon EDT Thursday. NASA TV is available in the continental U.S. on AMC-6, Transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 72 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA TV is available on AMC-7, Transponder 18C, C-Band, located at 137 degrees west longitude. Frequency is 4060.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz.

The class includes three educator astronauts, three military pilots, a Navy SEAL, an astrophysicist, two physicians, and an engineer. Also training with the 11-member astronaut candidate class are three Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts. The new astronauts are:

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Educator Mission Specialist Joe Acaba, from Dunnellon, Fla.

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