NASA Sets Media Briefing for Crews on Space Station

HOUSTON, April 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The astronauts, cosmonauts and
spaceflight participant aboard the International Space Station will
participate in a news conference from orbit at 10 a.m. CDT Tuesday, April 15.

Reporters may ask questions from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston; NASA's
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; NASA Headquarters in Washington; and from the
Russian Mission Control Center in Moscow. The 30-minute conference will be
broadcast live on NASA Television.

Members of the 17th crew of the station, Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov
and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, docked their Soyuz spacecraft to the
station early Thursday. With them is South Korean spaceflight participant
So-yeon Yi, who will stay on the complex for nine days under a commercial
agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Handing over station operations to the new crew are Expedition 16 Commander
Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko.
Expedition 16 Flight Engineer Garrett Reisman will remain aboard the station
and join Expedition 17. Whitson and Malenchenko will depart the station and
return to Earth, along with So-yeon Yi, on April 19.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

SOURCE NASA

Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-4715,
michael.curie@nasa.gov; or James Hartsfield of NASA Johnson Space Center,
Houston, +1-281-483-5111, james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov