NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington Sept. 28, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-3749)

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-162

NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION MISSION BRIEFINGS

NASA announced media briefings at 2 and 3 p.m. EDT, Thursday to preview
the
next mission to the international space station and to review the
accomplishments
of the onboard crew.

The news conferences are at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston and will be
broadcast live on NASA TV. Questions will be taken from media at
participating
NASA centers.

At 2 p.m., the Expedition 12 Preflight Briefing will provide an overview of
the
next mission. Expedition 12 Commander William McArthur and Flight Engineer
Valery
Tokarev, along with spaceflight participant Gregory Olsen, will launch at
11:54
p.m. EDT, Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on a Soyuz
rocket.

McArthur and Tokarev will stay on the orbiting complex for six months. Under
a
commercial contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, Olsen will spend
10
days in space and return to Earth with the Expedition 11 crew.

The 3 p.m. Expedition 11 Mission Status Briefing will review station
operations
and the crew's return to Earth. Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev,
Flight
Engineer John Phillips and Olsen will land in Kazakhstan at 9:08 p.m. EDT,
Monday, Oct. 10. Krikalev and Phillips will complete a six-month mission
that
included the space shuttle?s Return to Flight.



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For continental North America, NASA TV is carried on an MPEG-2 digital
signal
accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C,
4040
MHz, vertical polarization. Beginning October 1, it will be available in
Alaska
and Hawaii on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite AMC-7,
transponder
18C, 137 degrees west longitude, 4060 MHz, vertical polarization. A Digital
Video
Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder is required for reception.
Through September 30, it's available in Alaska and Hawaii in analog on
AMC-7, at
137 degrees west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal
polarization.

For information about NASA TV, including digital downlink information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the international space station on the Web,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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

http://www.nasa.gov/home


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