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Melissa Motichek
Headquarters, Washington                     April 24, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-055

SPACE STATION CREWS TALK WITH REPORTERS FROM ORBIT

     On Tuesday, April 29 at 11:28 a.m. EDT, reporters will 
have the chance to speak with incoming and outgoing crews of 
the International Space Station during an on-orbit news 
conference. NASA Television will broadcast the event live, 
one day after the arrival of the Expedition 7 crew aboard 
the Station. The crews will spend six days together.

Only 18 minutes of downlink television and audio are 
available for the news conference. Reporters at 
participating NASA centers will have the first 12 minutes to 
question the astronauts and cosmonauts. The final portion of 
the news conference is reserved for questions from Russian 
reporters at the Mission Control Center, Korolev, Russia. 
NASA TV will broadcast a translated version of the Russian 
segment as soon as available.

Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight 
Engineer/NASA International Space Station Science Officer Ed 
Lu begin their six-month mission April 25, on board a Soyuz 
TMA-2 spacecraft, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, 
Kazakhstan, at approximately 11:54 p.m. EDT.

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 land in 
Kazakhstan on board 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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