Date: July 3rd 2008

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NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT
SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS, BRIEFING ON TAP FOR NASA TV

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:52:41 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT

July 1, 2008

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715

Report #M08-129

NASA SETS BRIEFING WITH NEXT STATION CREW, SPACEFLIGHT PARTICIPANT

HOUSTON -- NASA will hold a media briefing Wednesday, July 30, at 1 p m CDT, with the next resident crew of the International Space Station and an American spaceflight participant

The briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and will be broadcast live on NASA Television Questions will be taken from news media at participating NASA sites

The briefing participants include: - Expedition 18 Commander and NASA astronaut Michael Fincke - Expedition 18 Flight Engineer and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov - Expedition 18 Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus - Expedition 18 Flight Engineer and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata - Spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, who will fly to the station under a commercial agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency

Following the briefing, Fincke, Lonchakov, Magnus and Wakata will be available for individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone There also will be a photo opportunity To participate in the interviews, news media should contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111, no later than 4 p m July 29

Foreign national media planning to attend the briefing in person must contact the Johnson newsroom by 4 p m July 8, to arrange credentials

On Oct 12, Lonchakov, Fincke and Garriott will launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft Garriott will return to Earth with Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko on Oct 23 in a Soyuz

Magnus will fly to the station on space shuttle mission STS-126, targeted to launch in November Wakata will replace Magnus on the station during the STS-119 mission in early 2009

For more information about NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

For information about NASA and agency programs, visit:

http://www nasa gov

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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 16:02:34 -0500 From: info@JSC NASA GOV Subject: SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS, BRIEFING ON TAP FOR NASA TV

July 2, 2008

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

Michael Curie Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4715

Report #M08-130

SPACE STATION SPACEWALKS, BRIEFING ON TAP FOR NASA TV

HOUSTON -- Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex July 10 and 15, with coverage of both planned for NASA Television

Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko will conduct the first spacewalk July 10 out of the Pirs Docking Compartment's airlock As part of the inquiry into ballistic landings by the last two Soyuz return spacecraft, Volkov and Kononenko will inspect their Soyuz vehicle and remove one of the pyrotechnic bolts used to connect two of the spacecraft's sections They also will install a docking target for a new Russian module scheduled for launch late next summer

NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 12:30 p m CDT The 6-hour excursion will start around 1:18 p m During the second spacewalk on July 15, Volkov and Kononenko will attach additional docking equipment and experiments to the hull of the Zvezda service module NASA TV coverage of the July 15 spacewalk will begin at 11:30 a m , with the spacewalk due to start at 12:08 p m Briefings are not planned after either spacewalk

A mission status briefing to preview both spacewalks will be broadcast on NASA TV beginning at 1 p m Tuesday, July 8, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, with a multi-center question-and-answer opportunity for reporters at other NASA centers Briefers will include:

Mike Suffredini, International Space Station program manager
Heather Rarick, Expedition 17 lead flight director
Bob Dempsey, International Space Station spacewalk flight director
Kieth Johnson, Expedition 17 spacewalk officer

For NASA TV streaming video, schedules, and downlink information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

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