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Sun, May 10, 2009

Are You Ready For Space Tweets?

NASA Shuttle Commander Tweets, Will Answer Questions from Space  

NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the International Space Station this June, is sharing updates about his training and flight on Twitter and has invited followers to submit video questions via YouTube that he will answer from orbit.

Polansky, a New Jersey native and former Air Force test pilot, will command the space shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-127, a flight targeted for launch June 13 to deliver the final portions of the space station's Japanese laboratory. While posting tweets about his crew's training, Polansky also will select video questions submitted by followers. The videos will be transmitted to orbit during the mission and answered live during a special event that will be broadcast on NASA Television and posted to Polansky's Twitter and YouTube pages.

Polansky's Twitter account is Astro_127, can be followed at www.twitter.com/Astro_127. To submit a question, Polansky's Twitter followers should post a video question no longer than 30 seconds to YouTube and tweet the link to Polansky's account, @Astro_127. From now through the launch of STS-127, one or two of the questions submitted will be selected each week to be answered from orbit. A video invitation from Polansky may be viewed at www.youtube.com/reelnasa

Polansky's crewmates are Pilot Doug Hurley and Mission Specialists Dave Wolf, Christopher Cassidy, Tom Marshburn, Julie Payette and Tim Kopra. Wolf, Cassidy, Marshburn and Kopra will perform the mission's five spacewalks. Kopra will remain aboard the station after Endeavour departs as a flight engineer for Expedition 20. Koichi Wakata, a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut, will return to Earth on Endeavour to conclude his three-month stay at the station.

The mission is Polansky's second space shuttle command and third spaceflight.

FMI: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts127, www.nasa.gov/collaborate, www.nasa.gov/ntv

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