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Topic: NASA's STS-135: The Final Mission press kit
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GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 06-30-2011 07:51 PM
   
The press kit for STS-135 is now available for download.As you might expect, it's a bit of a departure from previous missions, with the first 50 pages devoted to a capsule history of the program, including individual portraits of every astronaut to fly aboard the shuttle, and a summary of the milestones achieved by each orbiter. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-30-2011 09:20 PM
I'm trying to figure out the reason why the headshots are laid out the way they are. But: the press kit says 356 different individuals flew through STS-132. So who is No. 356? Aaaagghhhhh... |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 06-30-2011 09:55 PM
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Originally posted by Hart Sastrowardoyo:
So who is No. 356?
It's a typo; the correct number appears further on (pages 32, 52) in the press kit. In its 30 years of flights, the space shuttle has served as the ride for 355 different individuals from 16 countries. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 07-01-2011 07:28 AM
Ah, I saw that. But I'm still trying to figure the headshots. On page 4, for example, from left to right is McBride, Ride, Scully-Power, Hart, Garriott, Truly, Weitz, Peterson, Lenoir and Lousma. I'm really confused as to where they decided to place which astronaut. I've got it figured out that it has something to do when they made their last flight, which is why Cleave (30R) is by Hauck (27R) and not by Bobko (51J) (as it would be had it been arranged in first flight order.) But it's still confusing when Andy Allen is the photo above Lenoir, and Allen didn't fly in the 1981-85 period. |
Madon_space
Member Posts: 667
From: uk
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 07-01-2011 04:30 PM
I for one would love to see this produced as a poster in dedication to all those who have flown the shuttles or even a picture of a full shuttle stack made up of these portraits as a collage. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-02-2011 11:06 AM
Does NASA still produce actual paper press kits, or are journalists simply expected to download and print the online version? It will hardly be a collectors' item if it can be printed and reprinted for as long into the future as it remains available for download. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-02-2011 11:32 AM
United Space Alliance produces for NASA a limited number of spiral bound press kits. NASA also distributes the kit to media as stapled color and black and white copies. The digital press kit is also distributed on CD with the same cover art on the label. For this final mission, USA/NASA also produced and distributed to the media a "commemorative press kit cover" — the cover art and the shuttle astronauts portrait end pages printed on card stock. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 07-02-2011 12:47 PM
Robert, at your convenience, would you please post some pics of the "hard copy" and CD press kits you referred to that the media received for this mission? I'm not necessarily interested in pursuing them as memorabilia, just curious. Thanks! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-03-2011 06:56 AM
As requested, here are examples of the STS-135 spiral-bound press kit and the commemorative press kit cover (the latter illustrating the front, back and inside of the cover).  
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ringo67
Member Posts: 179
From: Seekonk, Mass., USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-17-2011 09:49 AM
I'm a writer and copy editor by trade, so the number of grammatical, factual and spelling errors that I found in the history of the space shuttle that was part of the STS-135 press kit made it nearly unreadable to me. It's also poorly organized. In some parts it's a chronological discussion of the flights. In others, it groups related flights, like the Hubble launch and its first repair mission.As someone who is proud of our space program, it saddens me to see this last shuttle press kit sullied by this poorly written and edited history piece. Heck, if they had just called me, I would have edited it for free. |
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