Kyle Herring
Headquarters, Washington                April 29, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N02-34

STATUS OF ISS EXPEDITION SCHEDULED FOR MAY 3 BRIEFING

     The progress of the fourth expedition to the 
International Space Station (ISS) will be discussed during a 
Mission Status Briefing beginning at 2 p.m. EDT Friday, May 
3, from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. The briefing 
will be broadcast on NASA Television.

Mission officials will offer an update on activities aboard 
the ISS by Expedition Four Commander Yury Onufrienko and 
Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch, who soon will 
enter the fifth month of their planned six-month mission on 
the complex. They are due to return to Earth in mid-June 
aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour following the STS-111 mission.

Onufrienko, Walz and Bursch are wrapping up joint activities 
with a multinational "taxi" crew, which delivered a fresh 
Soyuz return vehicle to the ISS on April 27.

Participants for Friday's briefing include:
*  Sally Davis, ISS Lead Increment Flight Director
*  Susan Brand, Expedition Four Increment Manager
*  John Uri, Expedition Four Increment Scientist

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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