ESA awaits Space Shuttle's return to flight

N° 36-2005 - Paris, 8 July 2005

ESA awaits Space Shuttle's return to flight

The US Space Shuttle is poised to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center as
of 13 July on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The
success of that mission will give new momentum to the ISS, as future Shuttle
missions will be transporting large modules from ESA, the Columbus
laboratory, Japan and the US into orbit to continue the Space Station's
construction. Eleven European countries, represented by ESA, together with
the US, Russia, Japan and Canada are building the ISS.ESA's Columbus and its
sophisticated experiment facilities will allow crews of astronauts to
conduct research and development in microgravity in material sciences,
medicine, biology and technology, many eventually leading to benefits for
everyday life on Earth. The work on board will be controlled from a mission
control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich in Germany.The
return-to-flight of the Space Shuttle also opens the door for missions by
ESA astronauts, with Thomas Reiter of Germany

For further information please contact:

ESA Media Relations Division
Paris (France)
Tel: +33 1 5369 7155
Fax: +33 1 5369 7690

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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

N° 36-2005: ESA awaits Space Shuttle's return to flight


8 July 2005
The US Space Shuttle is poised to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center as
of 13 July on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The
success of that mission will give new momentum to the ISS, as future Shuttle
missions will be transporting large modules from ESA, the Columbus
laboratory, Japan and the US into orbit to continue the Space Station's
construction. Eleven European countries, represented by ESA, together with
the US, Russia, Japan and Canada are building the ISS.


ESA's Columbus and its sophisticated experiment facilities will allow crews
of astronauts to conduct research and development in microgravity in
material sciences, medicine, biology and technology, many eventually leading
to benefits for everyday life on Earth. The work on board will be controlled
from a mission control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich in Germany.

The return-to-flight of the Space Shuttle also opens the door for missions
by ESA astronauts, with Thomas Reiter of Germany scheduled to fly on the
subsequent Space Shuttle in September for a six-month stay on board the ISS,
and Christer Fuglesang of Sweden on a Shuttle mission in early 2006.

Media can follow the launch of the STS-114 mission from various ESA Centres:
ESA/ESTEC at Noordwijk (the Netherlands), ESA/ESRIN at Frascati (Italy) and
ESA/EAC at Cologne (Germany).
Media representatives wishing to attend the event at any of the centres are
kindly requested to fill in the attached accreditation form and return it to
the relevant contact person listed for each venue.

ESA Television downlink parameters will be posted at
http://television.esa.int, about 24 hours before the event. For all TV
enquiries, contact Claus Habfast, Tel.:+31.71.565.3838 -
Fax:+31.71.565.6340, e-mail:

For further information please contact:
ESA Media Relations Division
Paris (France)
Tel: +33 1 5369 7155
Fax: +33 1 5369 7690


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Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info

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N° 36-2005 - Paris, 8 July 2005

ESA awaits Space Shuttle's return to flight

The US Space Shuttle is poised to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center
as
of 13 July on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The
success of that mission will give new momentum to the ISS, as future
Shuttle
missions will be transporting large modules from ESA, the Columbus
laboratory, Japan and the US into orbit to continue the Space Station's
construction. Eleven European countries, represented by ESA, together with
the US, Russia, Japan and Canada are building the ISS.ESA's Columbus and
its
sophisticated experiment facilities will allow crews of astronauts to
conduct research and development in microgravity in material sciences,
medicine, biology and technology, many eventually leading to benefits for
everyday life on Earth. The work on board will be controlled from a
mission
control centre in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich in Germany.The
return-to-flight of the Space Shuttle also opens the door for missions by
ESA astronauts, with Thomas Reiter of Germany

For further information please contact:

ESA Media Relations Division
Paris (France)
Tel: +33 1 5369 7155
Fax: +33 1 5369 7690

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--------------

Jacques :-)

www.spacepatches.info