Station Veterans Available for Interviews

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Nicole Cloutier
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)


Nov. 12, 2004
MEDIA ADVISORY: M04-181


International Space Station Veterans Available for Interviews

After six months in space, the Expedition 9 crew of the International Space
Station, Astronaut Mike Fincke and Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, are available
for interviews on Tuesday.

The interviews are on Tuesday via satellite on NASA TV from 6:30 to 8:30
a.m. EST. To arrange an interview, contact the newsroom at NASA's Johnson
Space Center, Houston, at 281/483-5111, by 4 p.m. EST Monday.

The crew landed Oct. 23 in Kazakhstan. Fincke, a native of Emsworth, Pa.,
near Pittsburgh, served as NASA Science Officer and Flight Engineer on his
first space flight. During his third month in orbit, he celebrated the birth
of his second child, a daughter named Tarali Paulina.

Padalka, a colonel in the Russian Air Force was Commander of Expedition 9 on
his second space flight. Padalka's first flight was a six-month stay aboard
the Russian Mir Space Station in 1998-99. Padalka and Fincke did four
spacewalks, totaling nearly 16 hours.

For complete biographies of Fincke and Padalka and more about their mission,
visit:


http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/stat...xp9/index.html

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.




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