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Glenn Mahone/Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington           Feb. 10, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

Steve Nesbitt 
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: 03-063

COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD BRIEFING SET

     The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) will conduct its 
first press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 3 p.m. EST. The press 
briefing is in the Teague auditorium at the Johnson Space Center, 
Houston.

Board Chairman, retired Navy Admiral Harold W. Gehman Jr., and other 
board members, will discuss their activities to date, CAIB structure, 
and plans for the investigation.

Other board members are:  Maj. Gen. John L. Barry, director, plans and 
programs, Headquarters USAF Materiel Command, Wright Patterson AFB, 
Ohio; Brig. Gen Duane W. Deal, commander 21st Space Wing, Peterson 
AFB, Colo.; James Hallock, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
(Draper Lab); Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. Hess, USAF chief of safety, 
Washington, and commander, Air Force Safety Center, Kirtland Air Force
Base, N.M.; Scott Hubbard, director NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.; 
Roger E. Tetrault, former chairman of McDermott International, Inc.; 
Rear Adm. Stephen A. Turcotte, commander, Naval Safety Center, 
Norfolk, Va.; and Steven Wallace, Director, FAA Office of Accident
Investigation.

Theron M Bradley Jr., NASA's Chief Engineer; and Bryan D. O'Connor, 
NASA's Associate Administrator are providing NASA's support to the 
board for Safety and Mission Assurance.

The press conference will be broadcast on NASA Television; reporters 
may ask questions form selected NASA centers. NASA Television 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.

More information about NASA is on the Internet at: www.nasa.gov

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