NASA Airs New Spacecraft's Maneuvers and Docking to Space Station

U.S. Newswire, March, 2008

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS

Contact: John Yembrick, Headquarters, Washington, 1-202-358- 0602, john.yembrick-1@nasa.gov, or James Hartsfield, Johnson Space Center, Houston, 1-281-483-5111, james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov, both of NASA

HOUSTON, March 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Less than three weeks after its maiden launch, the European Space Agency's Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle, or ATV, is set to begin a series of automated approaches and make an eventual docking with the International Space Station. NASA Television will broadcast the most critical maneuvers on March 31 and April 3, with commentary from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

During the docking, the spacecraft will be controlled by engineers at the ESA ATV Control Center in Toulouse,...

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