Feb. 13, 2003 Glenn Mahone/Robert Mirelson Headquarters, Washington Phone: 202/ 358-1600 Eileen Hawley Johnson Space Center, Houston Phone: 281/483-5111 Report #N03-016 NASA ANNOUNCES COLUMBIA ENTRY FLIGHT DIRECTOR PRESS BRIEFING Leroy Cain, the flight director who oversaw the ascent and entry of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb 1, 2003, from Mission Control, Houston, will hold a press conference beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST, Friday, February 14 from the Johnson Space Center, Houston. The briefing will be carried live on NASA Television. Prior to the start of the press briefing, at Noon and at 3 p.m. EST, a videotape of events inside the Space Shuttle Flight Control Room will air on NASA TV. It will include the audio of the Flight Director's conversations with his flight control team and air-to-ground communications between Mission Control and the Shuttle Columbia. NASA TV is on AMC-2, Transponder 9C, vertical polarization at 85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with audio at 6.8 MHz. For more information about NASA or the Columbia investigation on the Internet: http://www.nasa.gov -end- ### ------------------------------------------------------------- For automatic email subscriptions to this KSC originated press releases, send an Internet electronic mail message to mailto:ksc-news_release-subscribe@kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov. With no subject or message. The system will reply with a confirmation via e-mail of each subscription. To remove your name from the list at any time, send an email addressed to mailto:ksc-news_release-unsubscribe@kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov . With no subject or message. or you can (un)subscribe on the World Wide Web at: http://kscnews.ksc.nasa.gov/ Status reports and other NASA publications are available on the World Wide Web at: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/kscpao.htm .
