Kirsten Larson
Headquarters, Washington, DC               March 27, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-0243)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-15

NASA TO DISCUSS EXPEDITION TWO PROGRESS

     The second crew to live and work aboard the International 
Space Station has hit the ground running with activation and 
checkout of advanced communications systems, robotic 
workstations and scientific experiments housed in the Destiny 
Laboratory.

NASA mission managers will discuss the initial days on orbit 
of Expedition Two crew members, Russian Commander Yury Usachev 
and American Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms, during 
a mission status briefing Wednesday, March 28 at 2 p.m. EST. 
Lead Flight Director Rick LaBrode and Increment Scientist John 
Uri will review the first full week of the crew's work aboard 
the station and will preview future activities.

The briefing, originating from NASA's Johnson Space Center, 
Houston, TX, will be carried live on NASA Television and will 
feature multi-center question-and-answer capability from 
participating NASA centers. 

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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