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Al Feinberg/Melissa Motichek
Headquarters, Washington            April 17, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4504/1272)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-044

NASA ANNOUNCES TV COVERAGE FOR SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION

     NASA Television has extensive coverage planned for the 
launch and arrival of the Expedition 7 crew to the 
International Space Station. NASA TV will also carry the 
first landing of U.S. astronauts in a Russian spacecraft, 
when the Expedition 6 crew returns after more than five 
months in space.

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer 
/ NASA Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu are scheduled for 
launch at approximately 11:50 p.m. EDT, April 25 aboard a 
Russian Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 
Kazakhstan. On May 4, the Expedition 6 crew will return to 
Earth in the Soyuz TMA-1 craft, currently docked to the 
Station, landing in Kazakhstan completing their more than 
five-month mission.

Coverage on NASA TV includes:
*  Replay of Expedition 7 news conference, Star City, 
Russia, 9:00 a.m. EDT, April 18
*  B-roll video, Expedition 7 crew pre-launch preparations, 
Baikonur, 12:00 p.m. EDT, April 23-25
*  Replay of final pre-launch news conference, Expedition 7 
crew, Baikonur, 9:00 a.m. EDT, April 25
*  Live Expedition 7 launch coverage and commentary from the 
Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Baikonur beginning 11:00 p.m. 
EDT, April 25
*  Live Expedition 7 docking coverage and commentary from 
the Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, beginning 
1:00 a.m. EDT, April 28
*  Joint Expedition 6/7 crew news conference from orbit at 
approximately 11:28 a.m. EDT, April 29. There will be 
limited question and answer capability at NASA centers, as 
less than 20 minutes is available for the news conference.

*  Live Expedition 6 landing coverage and commentary begins 
at 2 p.m. EDT, May 3 with the Space Station change of 
command ceremony
*  Live undocking coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. EDT, May 3; 
followed at approximately 8:30 p.m. EDT with deorbit burn 
and landing coverage
*  There will be live landing commentary, but no live TV 
coverage, from JSC and Kazakhstan, for the Expedition 6 
landing
*  Video B-roll of post-landing activities, crewmembers' 
return to their training center in Star City, Russia, and 
crew/family reunions will be broadcast May 4, when available 

NASA TV is broadcast on AMC-2, Transponder 9C at 85 degrees 
west longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 
3880 MHz, and audio of 6.8 MHz.

For more information and scheduling for NASA TV on the 
Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

For more information about NASA, human space flight and the 
International Space Station on the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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