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For Release: Sept. 24, 1999
Media Advisory m99-198a


Summary:

CULBERTSON AND PARAZYNSKI LEND EXPERTISE TO SPACE STATION CREWS

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CULBERTSON AND PARAZYNSKI LEND EXPERTISE TO SPACE STATION CREWS

Frank L. Culbertson, who has been leading NASA's efforts in the 
Shuttle-Mir program and the International Space Station, will 
return to space to command the third crew to live and work aboard 
the space station.  Culbertson replaces astronaut Ken Bowersox, a 
U.S. Navy captain, who continues to train as commander of the 
back-up crew for the first expedition mission in early 2000.  
Culbertson joins Russian Space Agency cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov 
and Mikhail Turin, who were previously named to the flight.  The 
reassignment resulted from changes in the mission requirements for 
the two crews.  The initial mission requirements, particularly 
with the U.S.-provided airlock module, have evolved considerably 
since the initial flight assignments were made.  

In another mission assignment, Scott Parazynski will join the crew 
of STS-100, the eighth American flight to continue construction of 
the space station, currently scheduled for mid-2000.  He replaces 
astronaut Robert Curbeam, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander, who 
will fly aboard STS-98 in early 2000.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dwayne C. Brown 
202/358-1726.
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Doug Peterson 
281/483-5111.

For full text, see:
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