Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington                   Oct. 30, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-62

NASA BRIEFING TO DISCUSS 
LATEST SPACE STATION EVENTS

     Recent activities involving the Expedition Three crew 
aboard the International Space Station and a look ahead to 
upcoming work for the space-faring residents will be the 
subjects of an Expedition Mission Status Briefing.

The briefing is scheduled for 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Nov. 1, 
from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The event will 
be broadcast on NASA Television with multi-center question-
and-answer capability.

Participants include:
*  Mark Ferring, International Space Station Lead Stage 
Flight Director
*  Melissa Gard, Expedition Three Increment Manager
*  Glenda Laws, Expedition Three EVA Officer
*  John Uri, Expedition Three Increment Scientist

Expedition Three Commander Frank Culbertson, Pilot Vladimir 
Dezhurov and Flight Engineer Mikhail Tyurin are heading into 
the final month of their four-month mission aboard the 
orbiting science platform, preparing for the arrival of a new 
Russian Progress supply spacecraft. Their replacements, the 
Expedition Four crew, are scheduled to be launched in late 
November aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on the STS-108 
mission.

NASA TV 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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