Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington            April 18, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N02-25

NASA TV COVERS RUSSIAN SOYUZ SPACE STATION MOVE

     NASA Television will broadcast the relocation of a 
Russian Soyuz spacecraft at the International Space Station 
beginning at 4 a.m. EDT Saturday, April 20, from the NASA 
Johnson Space Center in Houston. The short 40-minute 
relocation flight begins with undocking at about 5 a.m. EDT.

Expedition Four Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight 
Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch will climb aboard the 
current Soyuz vehicle for the fly around from the Earth-
facing docking port on the Zarya module to the Pirs docking 
compartment. The move is necessary to clear the way for the 
arrival of a new Soyuz ferry craft on April 27.

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.

                       -end-