March 09, 2009

John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
john.yembrick-1{at}nasa.gov

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield{at}nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-036

NASA TV TO AIR TUESDAY'S SPACE STATION SPACEWALK

HOUSTON -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the March 10
spacewalk of Expedition 18 Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer
Yury Lonchakov. The pair will complete unfinished work from their
December 2008 excursion outside the orbiting laboratory.

Fincke and Lonchakov will don Russian spacesuits for the spacewalk
out
of the Russian Pirs Docking Compartment airlock. Flight Engineer
Sandra Magnus will monitor the spacewalk from inside the station. It
will be the sixth spacewalk of Fincke's career and the second for
Lonchakov.

NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 11 a.m. CDT Tuesday.
The spacewalk will start at approximately 11:20 a.m. and last five
and a half hours.

The centerpiece of the spacewalk will be the installation of a
European materials science experiment, which allows short and
long-term exposure to space conditions and solar UV-radiation, on the
hull of the Zvezda service module. The experiment, known as Expose,
was installed on Zvezda during the December spacewalk but had to be
removed and brought back inside the station because of a cable
problem. That problem has been repaired.

For information about NASA TV streaming video, downlink and schedule
information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the space station and the Expedition 18
crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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