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Posted by Jacques van Oene on July 21, 2006, 12:06 pm
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July 21, 2006
Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749
James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111X
MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-119
NASA ANNOUNCES STATION SPACEWALK BRIEFING AND TV COVERAGE
NASA will preview the next spacewalk conducted at the International
Space Station during a briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, July 27. The
briefing will originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston. It
will be carried live on NASA TV with questions taken from media at
participating NASA centers.
Expedition 13 crew members Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter are
scheduled to begin the six-hour spacewalk at 9:55 a.m. EDT, Aug. 3.
NASA TV's coverage of the event will start at 9 a.m. EDT.
Beginning from the station's Quest airlock, the spacewalk will include
get-ahead tasks and maintenance work on the station's truss structure
to prepare for upcoming shuttle missions.
Briefing participants:
-- Kirk Shireman, deputy station program manager
-- Dana Weigel, extravehicular activity flight director
-- Paul Boehm, Expedition 13 extravehicular activity officer
For NASA TV schedules, downlink information and links to streaming
video, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For information about the station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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Jacques :-)
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