Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:05:06 -0400
From: NASANews@luna.osf.hq.nasa.gov (NASA HQ Public Affairs Office)
To: press-release-net@venus.hq.nasa.gov
Subject: Mir 22 Crew News Conference Set
Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, DC October 22, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1778)
Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N96-68
MIR 22 CREW NEWS CONFERENCE SET
U.S. astronaut John Blaha and his Russian crew mates,
Commander Valery Korzun and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri,
will hold a news conference from the Russian space station
Mir on Thursday, October 24, at approximately 10 a.m. EDT.
The news conference, which will last approximately 30
minutes, will be broadcast on NASA Television with two-way
question and answer capability for reporters at participating
NASA centers. Translation will be provided.
Blaha became a Mir crew member on September 19, three days
after launching with the STS-79 astronauts on the Space
Shuttle Atlantis. Blaha traded places with astronaut Shannon
Lucid, who returned to Earth last month after a U.S.-record
188 days in orbit. Blaha is scheduled to remain on the Mir
until mid-January, when he will be replaced by astronaut
Jerry Linenger after Atlantis carries the STS-81 astronauts
to the fifth Shuttle docking with Mir. Blaha will return to
Earth with the STS-81 crew.
Dr. Lucid will hold her own news conference later in the
day on October 24, from the Johnson Space Center, Houston,
TX, at 1:30 p.m. EDT. It also will be carried on NASA TV
with question and answer capability from participating centers.
NASA Television is carried on Spacenet 2, Transponder 5,
Channel 9 at 69 degrees West longitude, horizontal
polarization, frequency 3880 Mhz, audio 6.8 Mhz.
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