Jan 20, 2011

Joshua Buck Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 jbuck@nasa gov

Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 nicole cloutier-1@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M11-012

NEXT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW HOLDS NEWS CONFERENCE

HOUSTON -- The next three crew members to live and work aboard the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p m CST on Wednesday, Jan 26 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website Questions will be taken from participating NASA centers

NASA astronaut Ron Garan and crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, will participate in individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone, following the news conference The crew also will participate in a photo opportunity for reporters at Johnson

U S and foreign media representatives planning to attend the briefing or participate in the round-robin interviews must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 4 p m on Monday, Jan 24

Garan, Samokutyaev and Borisenko are three of the six crew members for Expedition 27 and 28 The trio is scheduled to launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 29 (March 30 Kazakhstan time) They will join Expedition 27 NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev who will stay aboard the station until mid-May

On June 1, NASA's Mike Fossum, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russia's Sergei Volkov will join Garan, Samokutyaev and Borisenko to complete the Expedition 28 crew

For the astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information, visit:

http://www jsc nasa gov/Bios/

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

http://www nasa gov/ntv

For more information about the crew members and their mission, visit:

http://www nasa gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition27

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