Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington                     Oct. 16, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-56

SPACE STATION FLIGHT MANAGERS TO DISCUSS 
UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

     Mission managers will discuss recent activities on board 
the International Space Station, and preview upcoming events 
during a briefing beginning at 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday, Oct. 
18. The briefings will originate from the Johnson Space 
Center in Houston and will be carried live on NASA 
Television.

On Friday, Oct. 19, Expedition Three Commander Frank 
Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir Dezhurov and Flight Engineer 
Mikhail Tyurin will board the Soyuz currently attached to the 
station, undock and fly the vehicle to its new location on 
the Pirs Docking Compartment. That relocation will set the 
stage for the arrival of a new Soyuz vehicle and its three-
member crew on Tuesday, Oct. 23.

Culbertson and Dezhurov plan a third spacewalk on Nov. 5 to 
complete the external outfitting of Pirs. The crew also will 
prepare for the mid-November arrival of a Progress resupply 
vehicle and the late November launch of Space Shuttle 
Endeavour's STS-108 mission to deliver the Expedition Four 
residents for a five month stay on orbit.

Participants in the briefing will include:
*  Mark Ferring, ISS Lead Stage Flight Director
*  Melissa Gard, Expedition Three Increment Manager
*  Glenda Laws, Expedition Three EVA Officer

NASA Television is available on GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85 
degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, with a 
frequency of 3880 MHz and audio of 6.8 MHz.
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