NASA Administrator Michael Griffin will announce on Tuesday, Oct. 31,
a decision on a space shuttle mission to service the Hubble Space
Telescope. The announcement is scheduled for 10 a.m. EST during an
agency-wide employee meeting from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md. The event will be live on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov.

A news conference will follow at Goddard; also broadcast live on NASA
TV at 12:45 p.m. Questions from reporters will be taken from NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Johnson Space Center, Houston, and NASA
Headquarters. Media who want to attend the news briefings must
contact Goddard public affairs to arrange accreditation and access to
the center. Reporters should call either Ed Campion or Susan Hendrix
at 301-286-8955.

Next week’s decision follows a final evaluation meeting at NASA
Headquarters Friday, where senior agency officials presented their
recommendations to Griffin on the feasibility of a servicing mission.

If the decision is made to go ahead with a servicing mission, NASA
will hold several other media events on Tuesday, Oct. 31 (all times
Eastern):

2:30 p.m. News conference with the astronauts who would carry out the
mission from Johnson; broadcast live on NASA TV. Questions from
reporters will be taken from Goddard, Kennedy and NASA Headquarters.

3:30 to 5 p.m. Media interview opportunities on NASA TV. Hubble Space
Telescope experts will be available for satellite interviews. The
specific experts are TBD.

5 to 7 p.m. Astronaut media interview opportunities on NASA TV.
Certain servicing crew members will be available for satellite
interviews. The specific astronauts are TBD.

Media interested in the astronaut satellite interviews must contact
the Johnson Newsroom at 281-483-5111 by 6 p.m. EST Oct. 30. The
astronaut satellite interviews will be carried live on the NASA TV
analog satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude; transponder 5C,
3800 MHz, vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8 MHz.

To schedule a satellite interview with a Hubble Space Telescope
expert, media must contact Ed Campion at Goddard at 301-286-8955 by 5
p.m. EST Oct. 30.

A video resource package to support the announcement will air during a
special Video File feed on NASA TV at 11 a.m. EST Tuesday, Oct. 31.