January 26, 2004

Melissa Mathews 
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1272)

Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N04-014

NASA ANNOUNCES LIVE COVERAGE OF SPACE STATION DOCKING

NASA Television will broadcast the arrival of the next Russian 
resupply vehicle to the International Space Station on Jan. 31 
beginning at 7:30 a.m. EST. The Progress spacecraft is scheduled to 
dock with the Station at approximately 8:18 a.m. EST. 

This Progress is the 13th spacecraft to resupply the Space Station. 
Equipped with 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies, the Progress is 
scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 
6:58 a.m. EST on Jan. 29. There will be no NASA TV coverage of the 
launch, but once the Progress reaches orbit, an International Space 
Station status report will be available on the Internet at: 

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/news/station/ 

To make room for the new spacecraft, the Progress that arrived at the 
Station last August will be undocked and deorbited on Jan. 28. NASA 
TV will not cover undocking. 

NASA Television 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.htm  

Information about the International Space Station is available on the 
Internet at: 

http://www.nasa.gov

	
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