Discovery Channel/NASA Archive Capitol Hill Presentation Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Discovery Channel/NASA Archive Capitol Hill Presentation Tuesday, May 6, 2008

1) VNR Feed parameters:

NASA Press Conference VNR
05/06/08
13:00 - 13:15 EDT + 15 Approx
15:00 - 15:15 EDT + 15 Approx

Galaxy 11 / Transponder 19 (Slot "A")
C- Band
Downlink Frequency: 4066.5 Mhz Horizontal
Data Rate: 10.595
Symbol rate: 6.898021
FEC: 5/6

2) What's On This Clip Reel:

Clip #1
-- Rare footage of Gemini astronauts including Jim McDivitt, Frank
Borman and Jim Lovell training aboard the aptly named Vomit Comet.
-- Gemini training meant that astronauts had to be trained for
weightlessness while still performing important tasks.
-- This one will speak for itself with behind the scenes feel of
camaraderie.

Clip #2
-- Gemini 4 -- Astronaut Ed White's space walk seen for the first time
in HD.
-- We can see with amazing clarity the colors of the Earth behind him
as he floats outside the capsule, every detail of his suit and the
glinting of his golden tether.

Clip #3
-- Gemini 6 + 7 -- First rendezvous in space: remarkable space-to-Earth
footage tracking a Polaris missile sent up by mission control to
test exactly what astronauts can see from space.
-- Extraordinary audio between mission control and astronauts as they
discuss what they can and can't see.
-- The HD onboards allow us to see in detail the process of rendezvous
and docking in space.
-- Two of the key procedures needed to be successfully completed if
NASA were ever to land a man on the moon.
-- It's pure Star Wars with the glinting silver space ships approaching
each other.
-- Worth noting -- All these onboards were filmed by the astronauts
themselves.

Please contact:
Josh Weinberg for any questions --
240.328.3988 CELL/ joshua_weinberg@discovery.com

PRNewswire -- May 6

Source: Discovery Channel

Web site:

http://www.discovery.com/

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