Al Feinberg/Melissa Motichek<br />Headquarters, Washington April 17, 2003<br />(Phone: 202/358-4504/1272)<br /><br />Eileen Hawley<br />Johnson Space Center, Houston<br />(Phone: 281/483-5111)<br /><br />NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-044<br /><br />NASA ANNOUNCES TV COVERAGE FOR SPACE STATION CREW ROTATION<br /><br /> NASA Television has extensive coverage planned for the <br />launch and arrival of the Expedition 7 crew to the <br />International Space Station. NASA TV will also carry the <br />first landing of U.S. astronauts in a Russian spacecraft, <br />when the Expedition 6 crew returns after more than five <br />months in space.<br /><br />Expedition 7 Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer <br />/ NASA Space Station Science Officer Ed Lu are scheduled for <br />launch at approximately 11:50 p.m. EDT, April 25 aboard a <br />Russian Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, <br />Kazakhstan. On May 4, the Expedition 6 crew will return to <br />Earth in the Soyuz TMA-1 craft, currently docked to the <br />Station, landing in Kazakhstan completing their more than <br />five-month mission.<br /><br />Coverage on NASA TV includes:<br />* Replay of Expedition 7 news conference, Star City, <br />Russia, 9:00 a.m. EDT, April 18<br />* B-roll video, Expedition 7 crew pre-launch preparations, <br />Baikonur, 12:00 p.m. EDT, April 23-25<br />* Replay of final pre-launch news conference, Expedition 7 <br />crew, Baikonur, 9:00 a.m. EDT, April 25<br />* Live Expedition 7 launch coverage and commentary from the <br />Johnson Space Center (JSC) and Baikonur beginning 11:00 p.m. <br />EDT, April 25<br />* Live Expedition 7 docking coverage and commentary from <br />the Mission Control Center in Korolev, Russia, beginning <br />1:00 a.m. EDT, April 28<br />* Joint Expedition 6/7 crew news conference from orbit at <br />approximately 11:28 a.m. EDT, April 29. There will be <br />limited question and answer capability at NASA centers, as <br />less than 20 minutes is available for the news conference.<br /><br />* Live Expedition 6 landing coverage and commentary begins <br />at 2 p.m. EDT, May 3 with the Space Station change of <br />command ceremony<br />* Live undocking coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. EDT, May 3; <br />followed at approximately 8:30 p.m. EDT with deorbit burn <br />and landing coverage<br />* There will be live landing commentary, but no live TV <br />coverage, from JSC and Kazakhstan, for the Expedition 6 <br />landing<br />* Video B-roll of post-landing activities, crewmembers' <br />return to their training center in Star City, Russia, and <br />crew/family reunions will be broadcast May 4, when available <br /><br />NASA TV is broadcast on AMC-2, Transponder 9C at 85 degrees <br />west longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of <br />3880 MHz, and audio of 6.8 MHz.<br /><br />For more information and scheduling for NASA TV on the <br />Internet, visit:<br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html<br /><br />For more information about NASA, human space flight and the <br />International Space Station on the Internet, visit:<br /><br />http://www.nasa.gov