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Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington            February 2, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1898/1600)

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

RELEASE: 03-37

NASA MEMORIAL SERVICE SCHEDULED AT JOHNSON SPACE CENTER

     The President and Mrs. George W. Bush will join NASA 
Administrator Sean O'Keefe Tuesday afternoon in paying tribute to the 
brave heroes of the Space Shuttle Columbia crew during a special 
memorial service at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The ceremony to honor NASA astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, 
Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and 
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon is scheduled to begin at 12:45 p.m. EST 
in the Central Mall area behind Building One. Gates are scheduled to 
open at 10 a.m.

This is a private ceremony for family members, friends, and invited 
guests, along with NASA employees and contractors. The service will be 
carried live on NASA Television and available on the Internet at 
www.nasa.gov.

Media access to the memorial service will be restricted with 
television and still photography access provided on a pool basis.

NASA Television is available on AMC-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located 
at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. 
Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz.

Additional information about the STS-107 crew and the Space Shuttle 
Columbia is available on the Internet at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov.

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