Dwayne Brown
Headquarters, Washington, DC                     May 30, 2001
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N01-35

SPACE STATION BRIEFINGS PLANNED THURSDAY AND FRIDAY

     Two briefings are planned this week to talk about 
current and future activities aboard the International Space 
Station.

Thursday, May 31, at 3 p.m. EDT, NASA mission managers will 
brief media representatives on the current status of the 
orbiting space platform. Flight Director John Curry and 
Robotics Officer Aaron Goldenthal will focus on work 
currently being conducted aboard the station, in addition to 
preparations for a spacewalk, now scheduled for June 8.

Friday, June 1, at 9 a.m. EDT, Commander Yury Usachev, along 
with Flight Engineers Jim Voss and Susan Helms, will hold a 
press conference from space to discuss current operations on 
board the station as they begin their third month in orbit.

Both events will originate from and be coordinated by NASA's 
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. Both events will also be 
broadcast on NASA Television, with multi-center question and 
answer capability from participating agency centers.
  
NASA TV is available on GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85 degrees 
West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 
3880 MHz, and audio of 6.8 MHz.

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