Live NASA TV Coverage for Arrival of Next Space Station Cargo Ship

Jan. 12, 2007

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
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James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-005

LIVE NASA TV COVERAGE FOR ARRIVAL OF NEXT SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP

HOUSTON - The crew aboard the International Space Station will receive
a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies from a Russian Progress
spacecraft due to dock with the station on Friday, Jan. 19. NASA
Television will broadcast the arrival live.

After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on
Wednesday, Jan. 17, the Progress 24 spacecraft is scheduled to dock
to the station about 10 p.m. CST, Jan. 19. Live coverage of the
docking begins at 9 p.m.

The Progress will bring more than two tons of supplies to the
Expedition 14 crew. Currently aboard the station are Commander Mike
Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineers Mikhail Tyurin and Suni Williams.
Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin have been aboard the station for four
months. Williams joined them in December to begin a six-month stay in
orbit.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more on the space station crew's activities and sighting
opportunities, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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