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For Release:  March 21, 2000
Media Advisory m00-055a

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BRIEFINGS SET FOR RETURN TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

     A series of briefings will be held at NASA's Johnson Space 
Center, Houston, TX, on Monday, March 27, to preview the second 
Shuttle mission of the year, marking the return to the 
International Space Station.

      The briefings will begin at 9 a.m. EST with an overview of 
the International Space Station program, followed at 10 a.m. by a 
mission overview briefing.  A briefing on the space walk to be 
conducted during the flight will be held at 11 a.m., followed by 
the Video File on NASA Television at Noon.  Following a break, a 
briefing will be conducted at 1 p.m. on the technical upgrades 
made to Atlantis and future upgrades for other Space Shuttles in 
the 21st century.  The briefings will conclude with the Crew News 
Conference at 2 p.m.  

     All of the briefings will be broadcast on NASA TV, which is 
available on the GE-2 satellite, transponder 9C, located at 85 
degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 
3880 MHz, and audio at 6.8 MHz.

     After the crew news conference, limited round-robin interview 
opportunities with the crew will take place for reporters at the 
Johnson Space Center and for those reporters who make advance 
arrangements to participate by telephone.  


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Kirsten Williams 
(Phone: 202/358-0243).
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Eileen Hawley 
(Phone:  281/483-5111).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-010.txt 



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