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Old May 15th 05, 06:22 PM
Jacques van Oene
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Default NASA announces crew memebers for Station and Shuttle missions

Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington May 13, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

Doug Peterson
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 05-124

NASA ANNOUNCES CREW MEMBERS FOR STATION & SHUTTLE MISSIONS

NASA and its international partners have named new crew members for
upcoming missions to the International Space Station (ISS).

U.S. astronaut William S. McArthur, Jr. and Russian cosmonaut Valery I.
Tokarev will serve on the International Space Station as the crew of
Expedition 12. They will travel to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz
spacecraft later this year for their six-month mission. McArthur is the
Expedition 12 commander and Tokarev is the flight engineer.

Thomas Reiter, a European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut, will also carry out
a long-duration mission on the Station. He will fly to the Station aboard
the Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS -121, planned for a September 2005
launch. Reiter will work on the Station as part of an agreement between the
Russian Federal Space Agency and ESA.

Reiter's arrival on the Station marks the return to a three-person crew.
Station crews were reduced to two members in May 2003, to conserve onboard
resources until the Shuttle, with its considerable cargo capability, could
again deliver supplies.

McArthur, Tokarev and Reiter are space flight veterans. McArthur and Tokarev
trained as backup crew members for ISS Expeditions 8 and 10. McArthur has
flown on three Space Shuttle flights: STS-58 in 1993; STS-74 in 1995; and
STS-92 in 2000. He has logged more than 35 days in space, including more
than 13 hours spacewalking. On his last two missions he visited the Russian
Space Station Mir and the ISS.

Tokarev flew on Shuttle mission STS-96 in 1998. It was a 10-day mission to
deliver four tons of supplies to the ISS in preparation for its first
inhabitants. He has logged 235 hours in space.

Reiter joined ESA's astronaut corps in 1992. He is a veteran of a 179-day
ESA-Russian mission aboard Mir from September 1995 through February 1996. He
has been training for a long-term flight aboard the ISS.

Reiter joins the crew of STS-121: Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Mark Kelly
and Mission Specialists Piers J. Sellers, Mike Fossum, Lisa Nowak, and
Stephanie Wilson. Reiter will return to Earth aboard STS-116 or a Russian
Soyuz after his stay aboard the Station.

STS-121 is the second scheduled test flight for the Shuttle since the
Columbia accident on February 1, 2003, and the first to transport a crew for
a long-duration Station mission since 2002. Atlantis will carry supplies
and equipment to the ISS, and the crew will test upgraded Shuttle safety
equipment and procedures.

NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonaut biographies are available on the Web
at:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/

Biographies of ESA astronauts are available on the Web at:

http://www.esa.int/export/esaHS/eurastronauts.html




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