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