Date: March 19th 2007

Mar 19, 2007

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-30

NASA ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCE ON SHUTTLE REPAIR WORK

WASHINGTON - NASA will host a media teleconference no earlier than 5 p m EDT Wednesday, March 21 to discuss the status of space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission, STS-117 The teleconference follows a meeting to review options to repair the shuttle's external fuel tank, which was damaged Feb 26 during a hail storm at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla

The briefing participants are: -- Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Space Operations -- Wayne Hale, manager, Space Shuttle Program -- John Honeycutt, deputy manager, External Tank Project -- Mike Leinbach, NASA launch director

To participate, reporters must R S V P to Katherine Trinidad at 202-358-3749 by 1 p m EDT Wednesday Live audio of the event will be streamed at:

http://www nasa gov/newsaudio

For STS-117 crew and mission information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

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