{"id":472,"date":"2009-11-08T05:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2009-11-08T05:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T05:17:57","slug":"nasa-invites-reporters-to-tranquility-node-ceremony-at-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/nasa-invites-reporters-to-tranquility-node-ceremony-at-kennedy.php","title":{"rendered":"NASA Invites Reporters to Tranquility Node Ceremony at Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The European Space Agency, or ESA, will transfer ownership of the Tranquility node to NASA on Thursday, Nov. 19. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\/\">NASA<\/a>'s Kennedy Space Center<\/span> in Florida will host a commemorative ceremony at 3 p.m. EST.<p>Tranquility is a pressurized module that will provide room for many of the <span>station<\/span>'s life support systems. Attached to the node is a cupola, a unique work station with windows on its six sides and top. The module will be delivered to the station during space shuttle Endeavour's STS-130 mission, targeted for launch Feb. 4, 2010.<\/p><p>Tranquility is the last element of a barter agreement for station hardware. ESA contributed the node in exchange for <span>NASA<\/span>'s delivery of <span>ESA<\/span>'s Columbus laboratory to the station. Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy, built the module.<\/p><p><span>NASA<\/span>, <span>ESA<\/span>, Thales and Boeing managers involved in building and processing the node for flight will be available for a question-and-answer session after the ceremony. Media representatives planning to attend must arrive at Kennedy's news center by 2 p.m. for transportation to the Space Station Processing Facility. Participants must be dressed in full-length pants, flat shoes that entirely cover the feet, and shirts with sleeves.<\/p><p>Reporters without permanent Kennedy credentials should submit a request online at:<\/p><\/div><p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.ksc.nasa.gov\/\">https:\/\/media.ksc.nasa.gov<\/a><\/p><div> Foreign journalists must apply for credentials by 4:30 p.m., Nov. 4, and U.S. reporters must apply by 4:30 p.m., Nov. 17. For more information on the space station, visit:<\/div><p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station<\/a> <\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/79204_1205796008215741128-3707076317447066436?l=spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency, or ESA, will transfer ownership of the Tranquility node to NASA on Thursday, Nov. 19. NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host a commemorative ceremony at 3 p.m. EST.Tranquility is a pressurized module that will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/nasa-invites-reporters-to-tranquility-node-ceremony-at-kennedy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}