NASA announces media briefing & interviews with next Station crew

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington August 1, 2005
(Phone 202/358-3749)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone 281/483-5111)

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-127

NASA ANNOUNCES MEDIA BRIEFING & INTERVIEWS WITH NEXT STATION CREW


The next crew of the International Space Station (ISS) will talk
with reporters at 2 p.m. EDT, Aug. 4. The conference will be live on
NASA TV from NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, with media
question and answer capability from participating NASA centers.

Expedition 12 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer William
McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery Tokarev will discuss their six-
month mission set to launch this fall. Spaceflight participant Gregory
Olsen will also be available. He is flying to the ISS under a
commercial contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, arranged by
Space Adventures, Ltd. He will spend one week on the ISS, returning
with the Expedition 11 crew, Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Station
Science Officer John Phillips.

McArthur and Tokarev will be available for individual interviews
immediately following the news conference. To arrange interviews, media
must contact the JSC newsroom at: 281/483-5111 by 1 p.m. EDT, Aug. 3.

Interviews with Olsen and Eric Anderson, president and CEO of Space
Adventures, will be conducted at a separate location. To schedule an
interview, contact Stacey Tearne at: 703/ 524-7172, ext. 544, or via e-
mail at:

NASA TV is carried by MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite AMC-
6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical
polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, it's available in analog through
Return to Flight on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, Transponder
18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. NASA TV is
available on the Internet at: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about the Station and crews, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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