NASA Holds Briefings To Preview Space Station Expeditions

July 17, 2012

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
kelly.o.humphries@nasa.gov




MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-133

NASA HOLDS BRIEFINGS TO PREVIEW SPACE STATION EXPEDITIONS

HOUSTON -- NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston will hold two
briefings Thursday, July 26, to preview the upcoming Expedition 33
and 34 missions aboard the International Space Station. NASA
Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefings
live.

At 11 a.m. CDT, the International Space Station Program and Science
Overview briefing will cover mission priorities and objectives, which
include hundreds of research experiments, a Russian spacewalk,
international and commercial cargo deliveries to the complex and a
commercial cargo demonstration flight.

The briefing participants include:
- Dan Harman, International Space Station manager, operations and
integration
- Chris Edelen, Expedition 34 lead flight director
- Julie Robinson, International Space Station program scientist

At 1 p.m., Expedition 33/34 crew members Kevin Ford of NASA and Evgeny
Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency will
discuss their mission. They are set to launch to the space station
aboard the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft Oct. 15 and return to Earth in
March 2013.

Ford, Tarelkin and Novitskiy are three of the six crew members
comprising Expeditions 33 and 34. When they arrive at the station,
they will join NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Malenchenko.

Following the news conference, interview opportunities with the crew
members are available in person, by phone or through Internet
videoconferencing. To reserve an interview opportunity, news media
representatives must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by
5 p.m., Friday, July 20.

To participate in the news conferences from a NASA center, U.S.
journalists must call that center's public affairs office by 5 p.m.
local time on Wednesday, July 25. To participate in the briefings by
phone, media representatives must call the Johnson newsroom 15
minutes before each briefing. Priority will be given to journalists
participating in person; questions by phone will be taken as time
permits.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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