January 20, 2004

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

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: n04-009

NEW RECORDED INTERVIEWS WITH NEXT SHUTTLE CREW AVAILABLE

Why do the astronauts who will return the Space Shuttle to safe flight 
believe human space flight is worth the risk? How has their approach 
to space flight changed as a result of the Columbia accident? How 
have they dealt with the events of the past year? These are among the 
questions answered by the next Space Shuttle crew, STS-114, in a 
series of videotaped interviews available tomorrow.

Excerpts from the interviews, along with recent footage of the STS-114 
crew in training, will be broadcast on the NASA Television Video File 
at noon EST Wednesday. Full taped copies of interviews with STS-114 
Commander Eileen Collins, Pilot Jim Kelly and Mission Specialists 
Soichi Noguchi, Steve Robinson, Andy Thomas, Wendy Lawrence and 
Charlie Camarda may be obtained by contacting NASA's Johnson Space 
Center newsroom at: 281/483-5111. Transcripts will also be available 
at: 

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-114/crew/index.html

NASA Television is available on AMC-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located 
at 85 degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. 
Polarization is vertical and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. 

For more information about the Space Shuttle, the STS-114 crew and the 
Return to Flight mission visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov

	
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