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WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Television will provide extensive coverage of the launch and docking of the next crew members who will fly to the International Space Station on Tuesday, May 28. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are...
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for live satellite interviews from 7- 8 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 9. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) The interviews will originate from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Before they start, NASA Television will air a video...
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will host a crew news conference at 1 p.m. CDT (2 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, March 19, to preview the May launch of an American, an Italian and a Russian to the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefings live. Karen Nyberg of NASA, Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency will discuss their Expedition 36-37 mission. The trio is set to launch...
The U.S. space agency says it has assigned the crew for space shuttle mission STS-132, targeted for launch in April 2010. The 11-day mission will deliver the Russian-built Mini Research Module to the International Space Station. Space shuttle Atlantis will be commanded by Navy Capt. Ken Ham, with Navy Cmdr. Tony Antonelli serving as pilot. Steve Bowen, Karen Nyberg, Garrett Reisman and Piers Sellers -- all veteran astronauts who served on previous missions -- will complete the crew....
By Susanne Nadeau, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Jul. 13--UND alumna Karen Nyberg can't remember a time when she didn't want to be an astronaut, she said. "I was born to be an astronaut. Since I was a kid, it was something I wanted to do." On May 31, she got the chance to live her dream, joining a seven-member crew on a 14-day mission aboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery. Her job, as a mission specialist, was to control the shuttle's robotic arm, helping to assemble the International Space...
NASA will test concepts for future space exploration this month by sending three astronauts and an oceanographer on a mission to an underwater laboratory off the coast of Florida. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata will lead the crew on a seven-day undersea mission July 22 to 28 aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aquarius underwater laboratory. NASA astronauts Andrew J. Feustel and Karen L. Nyberg, and Karen Kohanowich, deputy...
