Aug 3, 2006

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-124

SPACE STATION CREW CHATS WITH FC BARCELONA SOCCER TEAM

The International Space Station crew will take a special call at 4:10 p m EDT, Tuesday, Aug 8, from members of the European champion soccer team, FC Barcelona During a visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, the team will stop in Mission Control to make the call NASA TV will broadcast the event live

The FC Barcelona team will be in Houston to play an Aug 9 exhibition game against Club America, one of Mexico's top club teams Players, coaches and guests of the team will visit mission control rooms used for the station and shuttle, and the historic control room used during Apollo missions and lunar landings They will also visit training facilities including full-scale mockups of the station and shuttle The private tour of Johnson Space Center is not open to the public Media coverage of the visit is only by pool Media should call the Johnson news room for details

The space station is home to NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter Each crew member is spending approximately six months onboard the station

For links to streaming video, digital downlink and NASA TV information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For information about the space station, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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