April 21, 2006 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington (202) 358-3749 June Malone Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. (256) 544-0034 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston (281) 483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-067 NASA ANNOUNCES SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM UPDATE Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale will brief the media Thursday, April 27, at 4 p.m. EDT from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. The briefing about the next space shuttle mission, STS-121, airs live on NASA TV. Journalists at participating NASA locations may ask questions. NASA TV's Public, Education and Media channels are available on an MPEG-2 digital C-band signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. In Alaska and Hawaii, they're on AMC-7 at 137 degrees west longitude, transponder 18C, at 4060 MHz, horizontal polarization. For digital downlink information and links to streaming video, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For information about NASA's Space Shuttle Program, STS-121 and its crew, visit. http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx