NEW TIME FOR STS-82 CREW PRESS CONFERENCE ON JAN. 31



January 30, 1997



Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone: 202/358-1547)



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

<h4>Release: N97-6</h4> <h4>NOTE TO EDITORS:</h4> <h3>New Time for 
STS-82 Crew Press Conference on Jan. 31</h3> 

Due to an adjustment in the STS-82 crew's training activities, the 
pre-flight press conference with members of Discovery's crew has been 
moved to a new starting time of 1:30 p.m. CST on Friday, Jan. 31.



All other mission briefings remain as previously advertised. Below is 
a list of the times and subjects planned for the STS-82 briefings. 
All times listed are CST.



Time Subject Location



8 a.m. - 9 a.m. Mission Overview JSC 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. HST Payload 
Briefing HQ 10 a.m. -11 a.m. Science Overview HQ 11 a.m. NASA Video 
File HQ 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. HST Spacewalk Briefing JSC 1:30 p.m. - 3 
p.m. STS-82 Crew Briefing JSC



All of the STS-82 pre-flight briefings will be broadcast on NASA 
Television on Spacenet-2, Transponder 5, channel 9, C-Band, at 69 
degrees West longitude, frequency 3880.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz.

	
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