NASA'S NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE PILOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

Feb. 17, 2006

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
(202) 358-3749

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-028

NASA'S NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE PILOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

The pilot of NASA's next shuttle mission, Mark Kelly, is available for
live satellite interviews from 6:40 to 8:40 a.m. EST, Thursday, Feb.
23. To participate, media must contact NASA's Johnson Space Center
newsroom at (281) 483-5111, by 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday.

Kelly is a New Jersey native. He will pilot the Space Shuttle
Discovery on the STS-121 mission, targeted for launch no earlier than
May. Kelly and six other astronauts will travel to the International
Space Station to continue evaluating flight safety procedures,
including shuttle inspection and repair techniques.

Kelly, a veteran of one spaceflight, will fly with shuttle commander
Steve Lindsey and mission specialists Piers Sellers, Mike Fossum,
Stephanie Wilson and Lisa Nowak. European Space Agency astronaut
Thomas Reiter is also part of the crew, and he will remain on the
station for several months. For information about STS-121 on the Web,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

Kelly, a U.S. Navy commander, is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y. He received a master's from the
U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif. For Kelly's and NASA
astronauts' biographies on the Web, visit:

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

Kelly's interviews will air live on the NASA TV analog satellite
AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 5C, 3800 MHz,
vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8 MHz.


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