NASA, Roscosmos Hold Briefings and Interviews Dec. 5 for Yearlong Space Station Mission

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Nov. 28, 2012

Tracy Young
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
tracy.g.young@nasa.gov

Joshua Buck
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
jbuck@nasa.gov

Josh Byerly
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
josh.byerly@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-221

NASA, ROSCOSMOS HOLD BRIEFINGS AND INTERVIEWS DEC. 5 FOR YEARLONG SPACE STATION MISSION

HOUSTON -- NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will 
hold two briefings on Wednesday, Dec. 5, beginning at 9 a.m. EST, to 
preview the upcoming yearlong expedition by two crew members aboard 
the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's 
website will carry the briefings live.

Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos will launch to 
the station in early 2015 to begin a yearlong stay aboard the 
orbiting laboratory. This will be the longest time an American has 
spent in space on a single mission.

Both briefings will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in 
Houston and will include participants at Johnson and the Russian 
Mission Control Center outside of Moscow. Questions will be taken 
during both briefings from media at NASA centers and the Russian 
control center. A limited number of questions from media also will be 
taken via Johnson's phone lines.

The programmatic news conference at 9 a.m. will include: 
-- Michael Suffredini, International Space Station program manager
-- Julie Robinson, International Space Station program scientist
-- Robert Behnken, NASA chief astronaut
-- Alexey Krasnov, director of Piloted Space Programs Department, 
Roscosmos
-- Sergei Krikalev, director, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
-- Igor Ushakov, director, Institute for Biomedical Problems

The crew news conference at 10 a.m. will include Kelly and Kornienko.

Individual interviews with Kelly and Robinson will be available to 
media immediately after the crew news conference.

For those attending at Johnson, the deadline for U.S. reporters to 
request credentials is Monday, Dec. 3. The deadline for international 
residents is Thursday, Nov. 29. Reporters attending at other centers 
should contact those centers' newsrooms for specific deadlines.

To participate via the phone, reporters must contact the Johnson 
newsroom by noon on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 281-483-5111, to request 
approval. Approved media will be notified that afternoon and will be 
required to call the Johnson newsroom at least 15 minutes before the 
start of the first briefing on Wednesday. Media will not be able to 
connect after the beginning of that briefing.

Reporters requesting individual interviews with Kelly and Robinson 
need to contact Gayle Frere in the Johnson newsroom by Friday, Nov. 
30.

For NASA TV streaming video, schedule and downlink information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #ISS. To 
learn more about all the ways to Connect and Collaborate with NASA, 
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For more information about the International Space Station and its 
crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station  

	
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