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

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-57

NASA TV TO PROVIDE COVERAGE OF SOYUZ RELOCATION FLIGHT

     A Russian Soyuz spacecraft currently attached to the 
International Space Station will be relocated from one 
docking port to another on Friday, Oct. 19. NASA Television 
will provide commentary and coverage beginning at 6:30 a.m. 
EDT.

Expedition Three Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir 
Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin will board the 
Soyuz, currently docked to the stationšs Zarya Control 
Module, undock and maneuver the spacecraft to its new 
location on the Pirs Docking Compartment. The entire 
operation is expected to take about 30 minutes.

The relocation of the Soyuz sets the stage for the arrival of 
a replacement Soyuz vehicle on Oct. 23. Victor Afanasyev will 
command that Soyuz "taxi crew."  He will be joined on the 
mission by Flight Engineers Konstantin Kozeev and Claudie 
Haignere, European Space Agency Astronaut flying under a 
commercial contract between CNES, the French Space Agency, 
and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency. They will spend 
eight days aboard the ISS conducting experiments and 
preparing to ferry the old Soyuz back to Earth.

Television from the Soyuz is expected during the brief free 
flight away from the orbiting outpost.

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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