NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei Available for interviews before launch

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2021-03-16

WASHINGTON, March 16, 2021 / PRNewswire / – NASA astronaut Marc Vande Hei it will be available Tuesday, March 23rd, for interviews with the media before its launch in April to the International Space Station, which will be its second space light.

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The satellite interviews will be conducted as Vande Hei completing training at Star City, Russia, and will live from 8 to 9:30 AM EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. Video footage of his previous spaceflight and training for his upcoming mission will appear at 7:30 am, before the interviews.

To arrange an interview with Vande Hei, the media must contact Sarah Volkman no later than 5pm Friday, March 19th, at [email protected] and tune into the NASA Television media channel (NTV-3) during the event. Satellite tuning information can be found at:

http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR

Vande Hei, along with cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, are expected to launch to the space station Friday, April 9th, on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Vande Hei he will be a flight engineer and a member of the Expedition 64/65 crews. During his mission, he will work on hundreds of experiments to benefit life on Earth and learn more about living in space. The space station is an emergency test bed for NASA to understand and overcome the challenges of long-term space lighting and obtained views will help send humans to the Moon and finally Mars. Among the research the team will conduct during Vande Hei’s The mission is studies of cotton root systems and Alzheimer’s disease, and a technological demonstration of a portable ultrasound device.

NASA selected Vande Hei as an astronaut in 2009 and completed his first spaceflight in 2018 as a member of the Expedition 53/54 crew. He launched September 13, 2017, and spent 168 days in space, during which time he made four spacewalks, a total of 26 hours and 42 minutes, before returning to Earth February 28, 2018. His research studies during his stay at the former space station include studies on the fabrication of fiber optic filaments in microgravity, improving the accuracy of portable glucose biosensor, and measuring the concentration of fiber. into the energy of the sun on Earth.

He was born in Virginia and built in New Jersey and Minnesota, Vande Hei as a retired colonel in the U.S. Army. He earned a Bachelor of Science in physics from St. John’s University into Collegeville, Minnesota, and Master of Science in Applied Physics from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. He was commissioned in the Army through the ROTC program and was a combat engineer. In 1999, he became associate professor of physics at the US Military Academy into West Point, New York, before being elected astronaut.

Lean Vande Hei air Twitter throughout its mission and get the latest space station team news, images and features on Instagram, Facebook, and Facebook Twitter.

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