NASA Astronaut Ron Garan Available For Media Interviews

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sept. 16, 2011

Joshua Buck 
Headquarters, Washington      
202-358-1100 
jbuck@xxxxxxxx 

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
281-483-5111 
nicole.cloutier-1@xxxxxxxx   


MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-196

NASA ASTRONAUT RON GARAN AVAILABLE FOR MEDIA INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON -- NASA astronaut Ron Garan will be available for live 
satellite interviews one week after returning to Earth from 6 to 7:30 
a.m. CDT on Thursday, Sept. 22. 

Garan completed 164 days in space as a member of the Expedition 27 and 
28 crews aboard the International Space Station. The mission included 
the last space shuttle visit to the station. 

To arrange an interview, news media representatives must contact Derek 
Sollosi at 281-792-7515 or by email at derek.sollosi-1@xxxxxxxx by 2 
p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 21. 

Garan and his crewmates, Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko and 
Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev, both of the Russian Federal 
Space Agency, landed in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft in Kazakhstan 
Thursday, Sept. 15 at 11 p.m. 

While aboard the station, they continued work on a variety of 
microgravity experiments and received provisions from two shuttle 
missions in order to ensure the orbiting outpost has enough supplies 
and spare parts until new commercial resupply spacecraft are ready to 
join a suite of international cargo delivery vehicles. 

Garan is a graduate of the State University of New York College at 
Oneonta, and he received a master's degree in aeronautical science 
from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. He flew on one 
shuttle mission, STS-124 in 2008. 

Garan will appear on 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 AMC 3, 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. 

The interviews and preceding b-roll from 5:30 to 6 a.m. also will air 
live on NASA TV. For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling 
information, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 


Garan provided updates throughout his mission through social media at: 



http://blogs.nasa.gov   







and 







http://twitter.com/astro_ron 






For Garan's complete biography, visit: 


http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/garan-rj.html 


For more information about the International Space Station, visit: 


http://www.nasa.gov/station   

	
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