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Feb. 13, 2003

Glenn Mahone/Robert Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington
Phone: 202/ 358-1600

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston
Phone: 281/483-5111

Report #N03-016

NASA ANNOUNCES COLUMBIA ENTRY FLIGHT DIRECTOR PRESS BRIEFING

Leroy Cain, the flight director who oversaw the ascent and entry of 
the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb 1, 2003, from Mission Control, 
Houston, will hold a press conference beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST, 
Friday, February 14 from the Johnson Space Center, Houston. The 
briefing will be carried live on NASA Television.

Prior to the start of the press briefing, at Noon and at 3 p.m. EST, a 
videotape of events inside the Space Shuttle Flight Control Room will 
air on NASA TV. It will include the audio of the Flight Director's 
conversations with his flight control team and air-to-ground 
communications between Mission Control and the Shuttle Columbia.

NASA TV is on AMC-2, Transponder 9C, vertical polarization at 85 
degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with audio at 6.8 MHz.

For more information about NASA or the Columbia investigation on the 
Internet:  http://www.nasa.gov

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