NASA TV Sets Interviews for Next Shuttle Mission Flight Director

May 25, 2007

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4769

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-59

NASA TV SETS INTERVIEWS FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION FLIGHT DIRECTOR

HOUSTON - The lead flight director for NASA's first space shuttle
mission this year, STS-117, will be available for satellite
interviews from 6-8 a.m. CDT Friday, June 1.

STS-117 Lead Space Station Flight Director Kelly Beck, raised in
Cahokia, Ill., will oversee a flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The
flight continues construction of the International Space Station and
brings a new crew member to orbit to begin a five-month stay and will
return home a station resident who has been in orbit since December.
Atlantis is targeted for launch at 6:38 p.m. CDT June 8 on an 11-day
mission.

Beck will lead a team of flight directors, flight controllers, support
personnel and engineering experts that will staff mission control in
Houston, 24/7 during the mission. The ground control teams and
spaceflight crews have used past missions' experiences, both
challenges and successes, as a guide for this next step in space
station assembly. At least three spacewalks will be conducted during
Atlantis' flight.

Beck's interviews will be conducted live via the NASA Television
analog satellite. To participate, media must contact Tim Hinson at
NASA's Johnson Space Center newsroom, 281-483-5111, no later than 2
p.m. Thursday, May 31.

The NASA TV analog satellite is AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude;
transponder 5C, 3800 MHz, vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8
MHz. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about STS-117 and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

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