Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov
MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-109
NASA SETS BRIEFINGS TO PREVIEW NEXT SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION
HOUSTON - NASA will discuss the next space shuttle mission during a
daylong series of media briefings from the Johnson Space Center on
Friday, Sept. 14. Space shuttle Discovery's 13-day mission,
designated STS-120, is targeted for launch on Oct. 23. The mission
will continue construction of the International Space Station.
The briefing schedule is (all times CDT):
8:00 a.m. -- Space Shuttle and Space Station Program overview
9:30 a.m. -- STS-120 mission overview
11:00 a.m. -- NASA TV Video File
11:30 a.m. -- STS-120 spacewalk overview
1:00 p.m. -- STS-120 crew news conference (photo opportunity follows)
2:00 p.m. -- Round-robin crew interviews
All briefings except the round-robin crew interviews will be broadcast
live on NASA Television and the Web at:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntvDiscovery's crew members are Commander Pam Melroy, Pilot George Zamka
and mission specialists Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, Douglas
Wheelock, Dan Tani and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency.
Tani will remain aboard the station for several months and return
with the STS-122 crew. Current station Flight Engineer Clayton
Anderson will return to Earth aboard Discovery.
Discovery's crew will add a module that will serve as a port for
installing additional international laboratories. The Harmony module
will be the first expansion of the living and working space on the
complex since the Russian Pirs airlock was installed in 2001. The
mission also will move the first set of solar arrays installed on the
station to a permanent location on the complex and redeploy them.
Media planning to attend the Sept. 14 briefings must contact the
Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. on Sept. 12. Briefers also
will take questions from participating NASA sites. Non-U.S. media
planning to attend the briefings, regardless of citizenship, must
contact the Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30, to
obtain credentials. Media planning to participate, either in person
or by phone, for the round-robin interviews with the crew members
must contact the Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11.
For the latest information about the STS-120 mission and its crew,
visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle
