April 9, 2007

John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602

John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-4934

STATUS REPORT: SS07-19

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-19

HOUSTON - Two Expedition 15 cosmonauts and a spaceflight participant aboard a Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Earth-facing port on the International Space Station's Zarya module at 2:10 p m CDT Monday

After the hatch opens, which is scheduled for a little before 4 p m , Expedition 15 Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, Flight Engineer Oleg Kotov, and Spaceflight Participant Charles Simonyi, a U S businessman, will be greeted by the station's current crew, Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and flight engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams

Williams, who has served as an Expedition 14 crew member since December, will remain on the station providing Expedition 15 with an experienced flight engineer for the early part of its mission She is scheduled to return home aboard space shuttle Endeavour this summer

Yurchikhin is making his second flight into space He was crew member on space shuttle Atlantis' STS-112 mission to the station in October 2002 He holds a Ph D in economics and was named a cosmonaut-candidate in 1997 Kotov is making his first spaceflight He graduated from the Moscow Medical Academy in 1988, and was named a cosmonaut-candidate in 1996

Astronaut Clay Anderson is scheduled to replace Williams during Expedition 15 Two Expedition 16 crew members are expected to arrive next fall to replace Yurchikhin and Kotov

Simonyi, flying under contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency, will return to Earth on April 20 with Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin, who have been aboard the station since September 2006

Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future launch dates, and station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available at:

http://www nasa gov/station

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