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Next International Space Station Crew Holds News Conference

HOUSTON – The next three crew members to live and work aboard the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Jan. 26, at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Questions will be taken from participating NASA centers, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA astronaut Ron Garan and crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, will participate in individual round-robin interviews, in person or by phone, following the news conference. The crew also will participate in a photo opportunity for reporters at Johnson.
U.S. and foreign media representatives planning to attend the briefing or participate in the round-robin interviews must contact the Johnson newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24.
Garan, Samokutyaev and Borisenko are three of the six crew members for Expedition 27 and 28. The trio is scheduled to launch to the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 29 (March 30 Kazakhstan time). They will join Expedition 27 NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev who will stay aboard the station until mid-May.
On June 1, NASA’s Mike Fossum, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Sergei Volkov will join Garan, Samokutyaev and Borisenko to complete the Expedition 28 crew.
For astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information, visit:
 
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/
For NASA TV streaming video, schedules and downlink information, visit:
 
https://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the crew members and their mission, visit:
 
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition27
 

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Allard Beutel
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
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allard.beutel@nasa.gov
Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
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Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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