Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
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Lynnette Madison
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-038
NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE STATION NEWS CONFERENCE
HOUSTON - Expeditions 14 and 15 crew members, along with U.S.
spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi, will discuss their missions
during a news conference from aboard the International Space Station
at 4:30 p.m. CDT Tuesday, April 10.
The 30-minute conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television. It
will include questions from media at NASA's Johnson Space Center,
Houston; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; and NASA Headquarters in
Washington.
The Expedition 14 crew is handing over operation of the orbiting
laboratory to the Expedition 15 crew this week. NASA astronaut and
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer
Mikhail Tyurin are near the end of their six-month flight.
The Expedition 15 crew, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight
Engineer Oleg Kotov, and U.S. businessman Charles Simonyi launched
Saturday and docked to the station Monday. Simonyi will stay for
10-days under a Russian commercial agreement.
NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Suni Williams, who has been on the
station since December 2006, will remain aboard and transition from
Expedition 14 to Expedition 15. Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin and Simonyi
will return to Earth April 20 in a Soyuz spacecraft.
For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:
For information about the Space Station and Expedition crews on the
Internet, visit:
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