NASA will hold a live interactive educational video downlink from the International Space Station with TTU’s Capt. Barry “Butch” Wilmore (electrical engineering, ’85, ’94) to TTU on Sunday, Nov. 22, originating from the TTU Nursing & Health Services Building Auditorium and broadcast live on WCTE-TV, on statewide public television, on TTU’s cross-campus closed circuit television Channel 4, and streaming video at www.nasa.gov and www.wcte.org .

The following tentative timeline will be updated after the Nov. 16 launch:

• 10:30 a.m.: WCTE-TV coverage begins
• 10:30-10:45 a.m.: Welcome by TTU President Bob Bell; Sally Pardue, director, TTU Millard Oakley Center for Teaching and Learning in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Stephen Parke, chair, TTU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
• 10:50 a.m.: U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon
• 11:08 a.m.: Live videoconference with the International Space Station astronauts for 20 minutes
• 11:30 a.m.: Closing

Here’s how you can watch the videoconference:

1. For the best coverage of both our Tennessee students and the NASA astronauts, watch WCTE-TV (channel 10 on Charter cable, channel 22 on Dish/Direct/antenna). It will be broadcast around TTU’s campus on closed circuit TV channel 4 and you can drop into Clement Hall 212 Engineering Auditorium to watch.
2. Elsewhere in Tennessee, watch your local Public Television station (on their second digital channel).
3. Watch NASA-TV if it is provided by your local cable service or satellite televison provider.
4. From anywhere in the world, you can watch this live video-streamed event on NASA-TV on the web at www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/.
5. Use your own satellite dish satellite AMC-6, 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 5C, 3785.5 MHz, vertical polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) with modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 6.00 and FEC 3/4 will be needed for reception.