Oct. 14, 2008

Katherine Trinidad 
Headquarters, Washington 
202-358-3749 
katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov 

James Hartsfield 
Johnson Space Center, Houston 
281-483-5111 
james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov 

MEDIA ADVISORY: M08-206

NASA SETS MEDIA BRIEFING FOR CREWS ON INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

HOUSTON -- The astronauts, cosmonauts and spaceflight participant 
aboard the International Space Station will participate in a news 
conference at 12:20 p.m. CDT, Monday, Oct. 20. Reporters at 
participating NASA centers may ask questions. 

Expedition 18 Commander E. Michael Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury 
Lonchakov arrived at the station Oct. 14, joining NASA astronaut Greg 
Chamitoff, who has been on the station since June. Chamitoff will 
return to Earth in November on space shuttle Endeavour during the 
STS-126 mission. 

Expedition 17 Commder Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg 
Kononenko, who have been on the station since April, are scheduled to 
return to Earth with spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, a U.S. 
citizen, in the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft Oct. 23, landing in central 
Kazakhstan. Garriott, who flew under an agreement with the Russian 
Federal Space Agency, arrived at the station with Fincke and 
Lonchakov. 

A change of command ceremony between the two crews will be broadcast 
on NASA Television at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. 

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



http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 


For more information about the International Space Station, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/station 

	
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