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NEXT SPACE STATION COMPONENT PRESSES TOWARD JULY LAUNCH DATE



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NEXT SPACE STATION COMPONENT PRESSES TOWARD JULY LAUNCH DATE

     Following a General Designer's Review meeting in Moscow 
today, NASA and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency announced 
that plans remain on track for the launch of the Zvezda service 
module to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 12 from 
the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.  The addition of this 
module sets the stage for the launch of other ISS components 
undergoing final testing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.  
A definitive liftoff time will be known closer to the launch date 
following detailed trajectory analysis by Russian experts.  This 
analysis will be based on optimum lighting conditions for docking 
to the ISS while the two spacecraft are over Russian ground 
communications stations.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Debra Rahn (Phone: 
202/358-1638).
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Eileen Hawley 
(Phone: 281/483-5111).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-101.txt 



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