In-Orbit news conference highlights space station briefings

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 27, 2004
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Kylie Clem
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-154

IN-ORBIT NEWS CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS SPACE STATION BRIEFINGS

The International Space Station crew, Expedition 9
Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA Station Science Officer
Mike Fincke, will discuss their flight with news media at
10:50 a.m. EDT Oct. 4.

Nearing the end of their six-month mission aboard the
Station, Padalka and Fincke will field questions from media
at participating NASA centers during the 20-minute news
conference. The event highlights a day of briefings broadcast
live on NASA TV focusing on the change of Station crews.

Station program managers and scientists will recap the
Expedition 9 flight in a briefing at 2 p.m. EDT. That
briefing will be followed by a look ahead at the plans for
the Expedition 10 crew at 3 p.m. EDT.

Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer
Salizhan Sharipov launch next month aboard a Soyuz spacecraft
from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. With them will be
Russian Space Forces Test Cosmonaut Yuri Shargin. He will
spend about a week aboard the Station. He will return to
Earth with Padalka and Fincke, landing in Kazakhstan. Chiao
and Sharipov will spend six months aboard the Station and
return in April 2005.

Briefing schedule and participants:

Expedition 9 Inflight Crew Press Conference (10:50 a.m. EDT)
Gennady Padalka, Expedition 9 commander
Mike Fincke, Expedition 9 NASA Station science officer and
flight engineer

Expedition 9 Recap Briefing (2 p.m. EDT)
Matt Abbott, Expedition 9 lead flight director
Dr. Don Thomas, ISS program scientist
Dr. Steve Hart, Expedition 9 lead flight surgeon

Expedition 10 Preflight Briefing (3 p.m. EDT):
Mark Geyer, ISS manager for integration and operations
Susan Brand, Expedition 10 increment manager
Annette Hasbrook, Expedition 10 lead flight director

NASA TV is available on the Web and via satellite in the
continental U.S. on AMC-6, Transponder 9C, C-Band, at 72
degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz.
Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz.
In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA TV is available on AMC-7,
Transponder 18C, C-Band, at 137 degrees west longitude. The
frequency is 4060.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio
is monaural at 6.80 MHz.

For NASA TV information and schedules on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about NASA and agency programs on the
Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov


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