Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC
Bowersox and Budarin will conduct a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk on
Dec. 12. They will exit out of the Quest Airlock to install
the.....Doc Mirelson
Headquarters, Washington Dec. 4, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1600)

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

SPACEWALK COVERAGE ON NASA TV -- UPDATED COVERAGE TIME

Expedition Six Commander Ken Bowersox, Flight Engineer
Nikolai Budarin and NASA Space Station Science Officer Don
Pettit arrived on the Station aboard the space Shuttle
Endeavour Nov. 25 for their four-month mission.

Bowersox and Budarin will conduct a 6 1/2-hour spacewalk on
Dec. 12. They will exit out of the Quest Airlock to install
the newly delivered Port One (P1) Truss segment and to
conduct other work to prepare components for future assembly
flights. It will be the first time a Russian cosmonaut wears
a U.S. spacesuit out of Quest.

The spacewalk will begin at approximately 9:30 a.m. EST on
Dec. 12, and it will be covered on NASA TV with commentary
and available downlink television. Coverage begins at 8 a.m.
EST.

NASA TV is on GE-2, Transponder 9C, vertical polarization at
85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with audio at 6.8 MHz.