HOUSTON, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Television will
broadcast two special messages from International Space Station crew
members, one that urges all Americans to exercise their right to vote and
another marking the station's 10th birthday.
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The messages will be broadcast beginning at 11 a.m. CDT, Monday, Oct.
27, on both standard definition and high-definition NASA TV. The HD version
also will be broadcast at 11 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, Oct. 28, and Wednesday,
Oct. 29.
Speeding 210 miles above Earth at five miles per second, Expedition 18
Commander E. Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff will join
millions of Americans and cast their votes in the Nov. 4 election. Thanks
to a Texas bill passed in 1997, Fincke and Chamitoff will join several past
astronauts who have voted from orbit.
Joined by Russian Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov, Fincke and Chamitoff
also beamed down a message celebrating the upcoming 10th anniversary of the
station's launch. The first space station component, the bus-sized Zarya
module, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 20,
1998. During the last 10 years, 76 flights have launched to the complex.
The orbiting laboratory has grown to a mass of almost 600,000 pounds and an
inside volume larger than a four-bedroom house.
For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For the latest information on the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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