NASA’s earth to space scheduled teleconference

By Fatema Miah :

Forthcoming the extraordinary event of NASA the international Space Station’s Earth to Space teleconference scheduled in June the 1st. World’s media is invited to participate in the teleconference and Facebook founder and the chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is connecting with NASA through the teleconference.
NASA the International Space Station serves as the world’s leading laboratory for conducting cutting-edge microgravity research, and is the primary platform for technology development and testing in space to enable human and robotic exploration of destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including asteroids and Mars.
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Expedition 48/49 crew member, trains for an International Space Station spacewalk in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston.  In Moscow Robins will be having her final preparations prior to her launch on June 24.
This is encouraging topic of science and knowledge and such events will bring awareness of science and space before the world.  NASA for the 1st time scheduled an earth to space teleconference in May and it was cancelled and rescheduled to June the 1st, and World’s media is invited to participate in it to broadcast the information before the world.
NASA has rescheduled their media teleconference to 1st of June that originally scheduled for noon EDT, to 2 p.m. on 27th of May for a discussion on the status of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) installed on the International Space Station. The teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website.
World’s Media is invited by NASA to part take in the Earth to space teleconference to provide an update on activities. Rubins will be answering to the media questions and the interviews will be preceded at 8:30 a.m. by 30 minutes of video clips highlighting her training.
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder and the chief executive officer will speak with three astronauts currently living and working aboard on the International Space Station at 12:55 p.m. EDT Wednesday the 1st of June. The Earth-to-space call will be seen live on NASA’s Facebook page.
During the 20-minute Facebook Live video call with NASA astronauts Tim Kopra and Jeff Williams, and ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Tim Peake, Zuckerberg will ask questions submitted on NASA’s Facebook page. To ask a question and watch the call, interested individuals can visit NASA’s Facebook page.
Rubins, who was born in Farmington, Connecticut, and raised in Napa, California. Rubins was selected as an astronaut in 2009, and this will be her first spaceflight and during time period on her spaceflight Rubins will participate in several science experiments, along with physical science, Earth and space science and technology development work, and also she will conduct biological and human research investigations.
Further it is planned that research into sequencing the first genome in microgravity and how the human body’s bone mass and cardiovascular systems are changed by living in space are just two examples of the many experiments in which Rubins may take part.
It was reported that Rubins will launch to the space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, along with her Expedition 48/49 crewmates, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
Rubins received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from the University of California, San Diego, and a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford University. Before joining the astronaut corps in 2009, she worked with the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, where she helped develop the first model of smallpox infection. She also headed a laboratory of 14 researchers studying viral diseases that affect Central and West Africa. As part of that work, she researched the gene expression responses of diseases, such as monkeypox and Ebola.
After arriving at the station on the 26th of June, Rubins, Ivanishin and Onishi will join Expedition 48 NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka. They are expected to be at the station for the delivery of the station’s first international docking adapter, which will accommodate the future arrival of U.S. commercial crew spacecraft.
A Japanese cargo craft also is planned to launch to the station carrying lithium ion batteries to replace the nickel-hydrogen batteries currently used on the station to store electrical energy generated by the station’s solar arrays.
Rubins is scheduled to return to Earth with Ivanishin and Onishi in October
Fatema Miah
Solihull, UK
fatemamiah@mail.com