Space Station Crew Looks for Special Christmas Delivery

December 15, 2005

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: (202) 358-5241

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-189

SPACE STATION CREW LOOKS FOR SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DELIVERY

The International Space Station crew will get a special Christmas
delivery when the next Russian cargo ship docks to the orbiting
laboratory Dec. 23. NASA Television will provide live coverage of the
2:55 p.m. EST docking beginning at 2 p.m.

The Progress spacecraft will launch Dec. 21 at 1:38 p.m. EST from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The craft will spend two days
closing in on the station before docking to the Pirs Docking
Compartment. NASA Television will not broadcast the launch. This will
be the 20th Progress to dock with the station.

Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Flight Engineer Valery
Tokarev will find almost three tons of food, fuel, oxygen and spare
parts aboard the craft, as well as holiday gifts from their families.
McArthur and Tokarev are in the third month of a six-month mission.

For information about NASA programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/home

NASA TV's Public, Education and Media channels are available on an
MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72
degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical
polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they're on AMC-7 at 137 degrees
west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal
polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast compliant Integrated Receiver
Decoder is required for reception. For digital downlink information
for each NASA TV channel and access to NASA TV's Public Channel on
the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv


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