OCTOBER 28 BRIEFINGS ON NASA TV TO DISCUSS NEW SPACE STATION HARDWARE AND EXPEDITION CREWA series of press briefings, beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST

October 28, will preview delivery of new hardware and the new

Expedition Six crew scheduled to arrive at the International

Space Station (ISS) in early November. All briefings will be

conducted from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, and

broadcast on NASA Television.

Seven crewmembers, led by Commander Jim Wetherbee, are

scheduled to be launched Nov. 10 on mission STS-113 aboard

Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA's Kennedy Space Center,

Fla. The seven include the Expedition Six crew on a planned

11-day mission to install the P1 (Port One) truss segment,

complementing the recently installed S1 (Starboard One) truss

as the outward expansion of the ISS structural backbone

continues. The Expedition Five crew, aboard the station since

June, will return home with Endeavour's astronauts.

The briefings also will feature previews of the work to be

performed by the Expedition Six crew during its planned four-

month ISS stay and crew news conferences to discuss both the

Expedition Six increment and the STS-113 mission.

Following the crew news conference, round-robin interviews

with the astronauts will be available to reporters at Johnson

and those who make prior phone arrangements by calling

Johnson's newsroom by Friday Oct. 25. The round-robin

interviews will not be broadcast on NASA TV.

NASA TV can be found on GE-2, Transponder 9C, vertical

polarization at 85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with

audio at 6.8 MHz.

The briefing schedule follows below (all times are Eastern):

8:30 a.m. -- INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OVERVIEW BRIEFING

Bill Gerstenmaier, ISS Program Manager

9:30 a.m. -- STS-113 MISSION OVERVIEW BRIEFING

Paul Dye, STS-113 Lead Shuttle Flight Director

Mark Kirasich, STS-113 Lead ISS Flight Director

11:00 a.m. -- P1 TRUSS OVERVIEW BRIEFING

Kim Ulrich, STS-113 Launch Package Manager

12:00 p.m. -- NASA TELEVISION VIDEO FILE (from NASA

Headquarters, Washington)

12:30 p.m. -- STS-113 EVA BRIEFING

Dana Weigel, STS-113 Lead EVA Officer

1:30 p.m. -- EXPEDITION SIX INCREMENT OVERVIEW BRIEFING

Melissa Gard, Expedition Six Increment Manager

Vic Cooley, Expedition Six Increment Scientist

Lamar Stacy, Expedition Six Payload Operations Director, NASA

Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

2:30 p.m. -- EXPEDITION SIX INCREMENT CREW NEWS CONFERENCE

Ken Bowersox, Expedition Six Commander

Nikolai Budarin, Expedition Six Flight Engineer

Don Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer

3:30 p.m. -- STS-113 / EXPEDITION SIX MISSION CREW NEWS

CONFERENCE

Jim Wetherbee, Commander

Paul Lockhart, Pilot

Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mission Specialist 1

John Herrington, Mission Specialist 2

Ken Bowersox, Expedition Six Commander

Nikolai Budarin, Expedition Six Flight Engineer

Don Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer

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