Return To Flight Crew Interviews

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

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


March 10, 2005
RELEASE: M05-034


NASA Announces Return To Flight Shuttle Crew Member Interviews

Veteran Astronaut Wendy Lawrence is available for live interviews via
satellite from 7 to 9 a.m. EST Wednesday, March 16. She will fly on the
Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-114) mission, the first since the Columbia
accident.

Media interested in interviewing Lawrence must contact Karen Svetaka at the
Johnson Space Center at: 281/483-8684 (office) or 713/708-1024 (pager) by 3
p.m. EST March 15.

The mission will test Shuttle safety improvements and deliver supplies and
equipment to the International Space Station (ISS). Lawrence, a mission
specialist, is part of the seven-member crew for the mission. This is her
fourth Shuttle mission, and she is in charge of the transfer of supplies and
equipment to the ISS. She and other crew members will operate the Shuttle
and ISS robotic arms. They are used to assist spacewalks, install equipment
and inspect the orbiter's thermal protective tiles.

Lawrence was born in Jacksonville, Fla. She graduated from the U.S. Naval
Academy in 1981. She received a Master of Science degree in ocean
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1988. She was selected as an astronaut in
1992 and served as the Director of Crew Training for U.S. astronauts in
Russia. For biographical information, visit:
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/lawrence.html

NASA TV is available via satellite and on the Web 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.

NASA TV is available on the Internet at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about the Space Shuttle Return to Flight mission or the
STS-114 crew, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/returntoflight
For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov



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