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November 17,
2015
MEDIA ADVISORY M15-163
NASA astronaut Tim Kopra, who is making
final preparations for a December launch to the International Space Station,
is available for live satellite interviews from 7-8 a.m. EST Tuesday, Nov.
24.
Kopra will participate in the interviews
live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The
interviews will be preceded at 6:30 a.m. by a video highlighting his mission
training.
To participate, reporters should contact
Karen Svetaka at 281-483-8684 no later than 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 23. Media
participating in the live shots must tune to NTV-3. Satellite tuning
information is available at:
Kopra, who was born in Austin, Texas, will
launch to the station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 6:03 a.m. EST on Dec. 15
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with crewmates cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim
Peake of ESA (European Space Agency).
Kopra’s first mission to space was as a
flight engineer on Expedition 20 in 2009. During that two-month mission, he
completed one spacewalk that lasted five hours, 32 minutes. He is a graduate
of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York. He holds a master’s
degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta, a second master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War
College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a third and fourth in business
administration from Columbia University in New York and London Business
School in the United Kingdom.
At the space station, Kopra, Malenchenko
and Peake will join Expedition 46 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos
cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. Kelly and Kornienko are
approaching the ninth month of their one-year
mission on board the space station. Together, the six crew members will
continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical
science and Earth science currently underway and scheduled to take place
aboard humanity’s only orbiting laboratory.
Kopra is scheduled to return to Earth with
crew members Malenchenko and Peake in June.
For more information on NASA TV coverage,
see:
Kopra’s biography is available at:
Follow Kopra on Twitter:
Follow Expedition 46 and 47 crew members on
Instagram:
For information about the International
Space Station, visit:
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