Oct 10, 2006

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

Gray Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-159

MINNESOTA ASTRONAUT STEFANYSHYN-PIPER SET FOR INTERVIEWS

NASA astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, a Minnesota native who performed two spacewalks during the Space Shuttle Atlantis' mission in September, is available for satellite interviews from 7:30 to 9 a m EDT Friday, Oct 13

Stefanyshyn-Piper and fellow spacewalker Joe Tanner installed a 17 5-ton, bus-sized new section of a girder-like truss on the International Space Station Called the P3/P4 truss, the new component includes a second set of huge solar arrays for the station and a first giant rotary joint to allow the panels to follow the sun

A native of St Paul, Stefanyshyn-Piper is only the seventh woman to have walked in space Her flight, designated shuttle mission STS-115, began a series of station assembly flights as challenging and complex as any in space history

To participate in the Oct 13 interviews, media should contact the newsroom at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, at 281-483-5111 by 3 p m EDT, Thursday, Oct 12 Piper's interviews will be carried 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

For information about STS-115 and its crew, visit:

http://www nasa gov/shuttle

For Piper's biographical information, visit:

http://www11 jsc nasa gov/Bios/htmlbios/stefanys html

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