HOUSTON, Nov. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn
of North Carolina, who is making
final preparations for a Dec. 19
launch to the International Space Station, will be available for
live satellite interviews from 5 - 6 a.m.
CST Tuesday, Dec 4.
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The interviews will originate from the Gagarin Cosmonaut
Training Center in Star City, Russia and will be preceded at 4:30 a.m., by a video feed documenting
Marshburn's mission training.
Marshburn is scheduled to launch at 6:12
a.m., on Dec. 19 (6:12 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with
cosmonaut Roman Romanenko of the
Russian Federal Space Agency and astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency.
They will be aboard the station during an exceptionally busy period
that includes the arrival of commercial and Russian resupply
vehicles, and an increasingly faster pace of scientific
research.
A native of Statesville, N.C.,
Marshburn received an undergraduate degree from Davidson College in North
Carolina. He then earned graduate degrees from the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, and a doctorate of medicine
from Wake Forest University,
Winston-Salem, N.C. Marshburn
served in various roles in emergency medicine and as a NASA flight
surgeon before being selected by the agency as an astronaut
candidate in 2004.
NASA TV's Media Channel #103 will carry the b-roll and will be
used to conduct the interviews. It is an MPEG-4 digital C-band
signal, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite AMC-18C,
transponder 3C, at 105 degrees west longitude, with a downlink
frequency of 3760 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80
MHz, symbol rate of 28.0681 Mbps, and 3/4 FEC. A Digital Video
Broadcast (DVB) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is
needed for reception. The Compression Format is MPEG-4, Video PID =
0x1031 hex / 4145 decimal, AC-3 Audio PID = 0x1035 hex /4149
decimal, MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 0x1034 hex /4148 decimal.
For NASA Television streaming video, downlink and scheduling
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
Marshburn's biography is available at:
http://go.nasa.gov/qN0R0e
For more information about the International Space Station,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
SOURCE NASA