April 27, 2004

Allard Beutel 
Headquarters, Washington 
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111) 

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-060

NASA UPDATES MEDIA ON SHUTTLE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN APRIL 30

The latest version of "NASA's Implementation Plan for Space Shuttle 
Return to Flight and Beyond" will be released publicly Friday 
morning, followed by a media telephone conference in the afternoon. 
The plan and the teleconference will outline the agency's progress in 
safely returning Space Shuttles to flight. 

The updated Space Shuttle implementation plan will be available April 
30 at 9 a.m. EDT on NASA's Return to Flight Internet web site at: 

http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/returntoflight.html 

The media teleconference will follow at 3 p.m. EDT. The participants 
will be Wayne Hale, Space Shuttle Program deputy manager and John 
Casper, deputy of the Return to Flight Planning Team and manager of 
the Space Shuttle Program Management Integration and Planning Office.

News media who want to be included in the teleconference should call 
the NASA Johnson Space Center Newsroom at 281/483-5111 by Noon EDT 
Friday April 30.

Media representatives who do not want to ask questions can use NASA's 
"monitor only" phone lines: 321/867-1220/1240/1260.

	
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