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Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington
Feb. 3, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

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

RELEASE: 03-045

VICE-PRESIDENT TO HONOR COLUMBIA'S CREW AT NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

Vice-President Richard (Dick) B. Cheney will join NASA Administrator 
Sean O'Keefe Thursday, Feb. 6, at the Washington National Cathedral 
for a private memorial service to honor the dedicated and brave crew 
of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

The service is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EST at the historic 
cathedral, which is known as a national house of prayer for all 
people. Dignitaries, community and political leaders, members of the 
NASA family, including current and former astronauts, all will come 
together to pay tribute to the crew, who died Saturday.

The ceremony can be seen on NASA Television and is available on the 
Internet at www.nasa.gov . 

NTV is broadcast 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 seven astronauts, Space Shuttle 
program, and the mission of STS-107 is available on the Internet at
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov.

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