October 22, 2003

Al Feinberg
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-4504)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-107

VETERAN SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR NASA TV INTERVIEWS

NASA astronauts Ken Bowersox and Don Pettit, the Expedition 6 crew who 
returned from the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz 
spacecraft in May, are available to discuss their experience live on 
NASA TV on Oct. 27. 

Bowersox and Pettit are available for morning and afternoon live 
interviews via the NASA TV satellite. The Expedition 7 crew is 
scheduled to return to Earth on Monday in a Soyuz spacecraft. The 
crew, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA Station Science Officer Ed 
Lu, is scheduled to land in Kazakhstan at 9:36 p.m. EST Oct. 27, 
accompanied by European Space Agency astronaut, Spaniard Pedro Duque.

Bowersox, Pettit, and cosmonaut Nikolai Budarin, spent six months on 
the Station. Due to a computer error, their Soyuz craft landed safely 
but several hundred miles from their prime target zone. It took 
searchers several hours to reach the crew.

For more information and to arrange an interview with Bowersox and 
Pettit, contact the Johnson Space Center newsroom at: 281/483-5111 no 
later than 6 p.m. EDT Friday.

NASA TV is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 
degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz, polarization is 
vertical and audio is monaural at 6.80 MHz. 

For information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html 

	
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