Kirsten Larson
Headquarters, Washington, DC                March 28, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-0243)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-19

BRIEFING WITH FIRST STATION CREW SET FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 30

     Back from four and a half months in space, the first 
International Space Station crew members will discuss their 
flight, a mission that brought the orbiting science complex to 
life, during a press briefing beginning at 11:40 a.m. EST 
Friday, March 30.

International Space Station Expedition One Commander Bill 
Shepherd, Soyuz Pilot Yuri Gidzenko and Flight Engineer Sergei 
Krikalev will participate in the press conference at the 
NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. The briefing will be 
carried live on NASA Television and questions will be taken 
from media at participating NASA centers across the country.

Shepherd, Gidzenko and Krikalev were launched to the new, 
uninhabited International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz 
spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, Oct. 31, 
2000. They returned to the Kennedy Space Center, FL, March 20, 
aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery after spending 141 days in 
space, 136 of them aboard the station. During the Expedition 
One mission, the complex was visited by three Space Shuttle 
missions and the space station more than doubled in size and 
power with the installation of giant solar arrays and the 
Destiny Laboratory module.

NASA TV is broadcast on satellite GE-2, transponder 9C, C-
Band, located at 85 degrees West longitude. The frequency is 
3880 MHz. Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 
6.8 MHz.

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