Mar. 19, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-30 NASA ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCE ON SHUTTLE REPAIR WORK WASHINGTON - NASA will host a media teleconference no earlier than 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21 to discuss the status of space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission, STS-117. The teleconference follows a meeting to review options to repair the shuttle's external fuel tank, which was damaged Feb. 26 during a hail storm at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla. The briefing participants are: -- Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Space Operations -- Wayne Hale, manager, Space Shuttle Program -- John Honeycutt, deputy manager, External Tank Project -- Mike Leinbach, NASA launch director To participate, reporters must R.S.V.P. to Katherine Trinidad at 202-358-3749 by 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Live audio of the event will be streamed at: http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio For STS-117 crew and mission information, 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
