Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington            August 1, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1694)

Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

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SPACE-SHUTTLE STATUS NEWS CONFERENCE ON NASA TV AUG. 2

     A press conference with Space Shuttle Program Manager 
Ron Dittemore will be broadcast on NASA Television beginning 
at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 2, from NASA's Johnson Space 
Center, Houston.

The briefing will detail plans for resuming launches with 
question-and-answer capability for reporters at NASA centers.

Space shuttle flights have been on hold while teams of 
engineers evaluated the cause and effect -- from a safety-of-
flight standpoint -- of tiny cracks found in liners inside 
fuel lines of the four orbiters -- Columbia, Discovery, 
Atlantis and Endeavour.

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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