Dwayne Brown                                              June 5, 2001
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

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

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N01-36

SPACE STATION  SPACEWALK BRIEFING SET FOR THURSDAY

 NASA officials will discuss plans for the first spacewalk by an 
International Space Station crew during a briefing on Thursday, June 7, 
at 2 p.m. EDT, from the Johnson Space Center, Houston. 

Briefing participants will include flight director John Curry, space 
walk officer Cindy Begley and scientist John Uri.

Station Commander Yury Usachev and Flight Engineer Jim Voss will perform 
an internal spacewalk beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Friday June 8. The 
planned 35-minute spacewalk, will relocate a station component in 
preparation for the arrival of a future Russian component. An internal 
spacewalk involves an astronaut working inside a component exposed to 
the vacuum of space, but not venturing outside a spacecraft.
 
NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk will begin at 10 a.m. EDT Friday; 
however, no live television of the spacewalk is expected. The briefing 
will be carried live on NASA Television with multi-center question-and-
answer capability from participating NASA centers. 

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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