NASA announces space station crew press conference

Melissa Mathews
Headquarters, Washington April 15, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-064

NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION CREWS' PRESS CONFERENCE

Astronauts and cosmonauts in orbit on the International Space Station
will discuss their missions during a news conference at 9:10 a.m. EDT,
Monday.

The 30-minute conference will be live on NASA TV. It includes
questions-and-answers for reporters at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston;
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; NASA Headquarters; and at the Russian Federal
Space Agency Mission Control Center, Moscow.

The conference takes place during handover operations between the Expedition
10 and 11 Station crews. Expedition 10 Commander and NASA Science Officer
Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov are near the end of their
six-month flight. The Expedition 11 crew, Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA
Science Officer and Flight Engineer John Phillips, launched Thursday and
will dock to the Station Saturday. European Space Agency astronaut Roberto
Vittori joins them for an eight-day stay on the Station.

Chiao, Sharipov and Vittori return to Earth April 24 in the Soyuz spacecraft
docked to the Station. Krikalev and Phillips plan to spend six months aboard
the Station.

NASA TV is available in the continental U.S. on AMC-6, Transponder 9, at
3880 MHz, vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8 MHz. In Alaska and
Hawaii, it's on AMC-7, Transponder 17 at 4040 MHz, vertical polarization
with audio at 6.8 MHz. NASA TV is available on the Internet at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about the Space Station and Expedition crews on the
Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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