Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington February 2, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-1898/1600)
Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
RELEASE: 03-37
NASA MEMORIAL SERVICE SCHEDULED AT JOHNSON SPACE CENTER
The President and Mrs. George W. Bush will join NASA Administrator Sean
O'Keefe Tuesday afternoon in paying tribute to the brave heroes of the Space
Shuttle Columbia crew during a special memorial service at the NASA Johnson
Space Center in Houston.
The ceremony to honor NASA astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael
Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Israeli astronaut
Ilan Ramon is scheduled to begin at 12:45 p.m. EST in the Central Mall area
behind Building One. Gates are scheduled to open at 10 a.m.
This is a private ceremony for family members, friends, and invited guests,
along with NASA employees and contractors. The service will be carried live
on NASA Television and available on the Internet at www.nasa.gov.
Media access to the memorial service will be restricted with television and
still photography access provided on a pool basis.
NASA Television is available on AMC-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85
degrees West longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is
vertical and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz.
Additional information about the STS-107 crew and the Space Shuttle Columbia
is available on the Internet at http://spaceflight.nasa.gov.
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