{"id":52529,"date":"2017-08-29T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-408577"},"modified":"2023-07-26T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T19:00:38","slug":"nasa-cancels-planned-media-availabilities-with-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-cancels-planned-media-availabilities-with-astronauts\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Cancels Planned Media Availabilities with Astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"As Tropical Storm Harvey continues along the Gulf Coast, NASA has canceled a planned Aug. 30 question and answer session \" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=400,266 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=600,399 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=900,599 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=1200,799 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/harvey-iss-tuesday_0.jpg?resize=2000,1331 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">As Tropical Storm Harvey continues along the Gulf Coast, NASA has canceled a planned Aug. 30 question and answer session with astronaut Peggy Whitson aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik took this photo of the storm Aug. 28 from the orbiting laboratory. <strong>Credits: NASA<\/strong><\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Due to the ongoing effects of Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, NASA has canceled an in-flight question and answer session with astronaut Peggy Whitson aboard the International Space Station. Additionally, due to a change in the crew training schedule, live satellite interviews with NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba in Russia also have been canceled.<br>\n <br>\nNASA previously planned a 30-minute news conference with Whitson on Wednesday, Aug. 30 \u2013 her final media event before returning to Earth after spending more than nine months aboard the space station. NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center in Houston, where the space station mission control is located, has been closed to all but mission essential personnel since Aug. 25, and staff will not be able to support the in-flight event.<br>\n <br>\nWhitson launched to the space station on Nov. 17, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and is set to return Saturday, Sept. 2. She will land in Kazakhstan at 9:22 p.m. (7:22 a.m. Kazakhstan time on Sept. 3) along with NASA\u2019s Jack Fischer and cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos. Fischer and Yurchikhin have been Whitson\u2019s crewmates since they arrived at the station in April.<br>\n <br>\nLive satellite interviews with Vande Hei and Acaba from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, where the pair will make final preparations for launch, were previously planned for Friday, Sept. 1. The astronauts, along with cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of Roscosmos, will launch on a Russian Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft at 5:17 p.m. on Sept. 12. They are scheduled to return to Earth in February.<br>\n <br>\nLearn more about the International Space Station and its crew members at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-end-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cheryl Warner<br>\nHeadquarters, Washington<br>\n202-358-1100<br>\ncheryl.m.warner@nasa.gov<br>\nBrandi Dean<br>\nJohnson Space Center, Houston<br>\n281-483-5111<br>\nbrandi.k.dean@nasa.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the ongoing effects of Tropical Storm Harvey in Houston, NASA has canceled an in-flight question and answer session with astronaut Peggy Whitson aboard the International Space Station. 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