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James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111

John Yembrick
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0602

RELEASE: M07-035

NASA TELEVISION COVERAGE FOR SPACE STATION CREW EXCHANGE

WASHINGTON - The launch of Expedition 15, the next crew to the

International Space Station, and the landing of Expedition 14 are
among the events scheduled for broadcast live on NASA Television
April 7-20.

Cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 15 commander, and Oleg Kotov,

Expedition 15 flight engineer, and spaceflight participant Charles
Simonyi, a U.S. businessman, are scheduled to launch Saturday at 1:31
p.m. EDT for a two-day trip aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-10 craft to
the station. Their spacecraft is scheduled to dock Monday at
approximately 3:12 p.m.

Flight Engineer Suni Williams, who has served as an Expedition 14

crewmember since December, will remain on the station joining the
Expedition 15 crew. She is scheduled to return home aboard space
shuttle Endeavour this summer.

NASA Expedition 14 Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer

Mikhail Tyurin, who have been orbiting on the station since September
2006, and Simonyi will land in north central Kazakhstan on April 20
at approximately 9:37 a.m. aboard the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft that is
currently docked at the station.

The events and planned broadcasts include (all times approximate,

EDT):

Saturday, April 7:
12:30 p.m. - Expedition 15 launch coverage (launch 1:31 p.m.)
3 p.m. - Video File B-roll replay of Expedition 15 launch activities
and launch

Monday, April 9:
2:45 p.m. - Expedition 15 docking and hatch opening coverage (docking
3:12 p.m., post-docking news conference 3:30 p.m., hatch opening 4:55
p.m.)
7 p.m. - Video File B-roll replay of Expedition 15 docking and hatch
opening

Tuesday, April 10:

5:30 p.m. - News conference with all six crewmembers on aboard the
station with multi-center question and answer capability for media
participating at NASA centers

Friday, April 20:

2:30 a.m. - Expedition 14 farewell and hatch closure coverage (hatch
closure 3:05 a.m.)
5:45 a.m. - Expedition 14 undocking coverage (undocking at 6:21 a.m.)
8:15 a.m. - Expedition 14 deorbit burn and landing coverage (deorbit
burn 8:47 a.m., landing 9:36 a.m.)

Video of crew recovery activities at the landing site in north central

Kazakhstan is expected to be broadcast on NASA TV as a special Video
File on April 20 at 6 p.m., with a final Video File feed of the
crew's return to Star City, Russia at 9:30 p.m.

NASA TV is carried on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite

AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz,
vertical polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, NASA Television will be
seen on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, transponder 18C, at
4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. In both instances, a Digital Video
Broadcast (DVB)-compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) (with
modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 36.86 and FEC 3/4) will be
needed for reception.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,

visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

NASA TV's digital conversion will require members of the broadcast

media to upgrade with an "addressable" Integrated Receiver
Decoder, or IRD, to participate in live news events and interviews,
press briefings and receive NASA's Video File news feeds on a
dedicated media services channel. NASA mission coverage will air on a
digital NASA public services (free to air) channel, which only needs
a basic IRD.

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