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Melissa Motichek
Headquarters, Washington             April 28, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-046

NASA SPACE STATION PRESS CONFERENCE UPDATE

     On Tuesday, April 29, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, reporters at 
two NASA centers will speak with the astronauts and 
cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station. NASA 
Television will broadcast the event live, one day after the 
arrival of the Expedition 7 crew.

Only 17 minutes of downlink time is available for the news 
conference. Reporters at Johnson Space Center in Houston and 
Kennedy Space Center in Florida will have the first 11 
minutes for questions; then reporters at the Mission Control 
Center, Korolev, Russia, will have six minutes. 

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight 
Engineer/NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed 
Lu began their six-month mission April 25 aboard a Soyuz 
TMA-2 spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 
Kazakhstan.

On May 3, at approximately 10:03 p.m. EDT, Expedition 6 
Commander Ken Bowersox, Soyuz Commander Nikolai Budarin and 
NASA Space Station Science Officer Don Pettit will land in 
Kazakhstan in the Soyuz TMA-1 craft that was docked to the 
Station during their five-and-a-half month mission.

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 about human space flight and NASA on 
the Internet, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov

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