Date: May 15th 2007

May 14, 2007

Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-55

SPACE STATION CREW AND U S RECORD HOLDER AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

HOUSTON - After being separated for nearly five months, the International Space Station Expedition 14 crew has reunited and returned to the United States for post-mission debriefs Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria, Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter will be available Thursday, May 17, for satellite interviews from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston

The three crew members will be available from 6-8:30 a m CDT To participate, media should contact Michael Hare at 281-483-8631 or the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 1 p m Wednesday, May 16

The three worked together on-orbit between Sept 20 and Dec 19, 2006 Reiter, originally part of the Expedition 13 crew, transitioned to Expedition 14 and returned to Earth on space shuttle Discovery's STS-116 mission in December Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin remained on the station until their return on a Soyuz spacecraft that landed in Kazakhstan on April 21

During Expedition 14, Lopez-Alegria completed five spacewalks and broke three U S space records: most number of spacewalks, most cumulative spacewalk time, and longest duration of a single spaceflight Lopez-Alegria has completed 10 spacewalks in his career, logging a cumulative spacewalk time of 57 hours, 40 minutes He spent more than 215 days on the station

The interviews and b-roll of Expedition 14 activities will air live on NASA Television The b-roll airs Thursday at 5:30 a m and again at 7 a m For NASA TV downlink and streaming video information, visit:

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information on the space station and the expedition crews, visit:

http://www nasa gov/station

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