Accomplishments of Expedition Five Crew and Status of Soyuz Flight Subject of November 5 Briefings

The accomplishments of the Expedition Five crew aboard
the International Space Station (ISS) and the status of the
current flight to deliver a new Soyuz return-vehicle to the
orbiting laboratory will be the subject of a media briefing
Tuesday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. EST from NASA’s Johnson Space
Center, Houston. The briefing will be broadcast on NASA
Television.

Expedition Five Commander Valery Korzun, NASA ISS Science
Officer Peggy Whitson and Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev are
in the final days of their nearly six-month mission on the
station. The crew is preparing for the arrival of their
successors, the Expedition Six crew, scheduled to be launched
in November on Space Shuttle Endeavour. The Expedition Five
crew, aboard the ISS since June, will return home with
Endeavour’s astronauts.

A Russian-Belgian crew is arriving at the ISS to bring a
fresh Soyuz return-vehicle to the outpost. That crew is
scheduled to depart the station Nov. 9 in the older Soyuz
docked to the ISS.

The participants for the Nov. 5 briefing include:

• Bryan Lunney, ISS Flight Director
• Dianne Murphy, Expedition Five Increment Manager
• Vic Cooley, Expedition Five Increment Scientist

NASA TV can be found on GE-2, Transponder 9C, vertical
polarization, at 85 degrees West longitude, 3880 MHz, with
audio at 6.8 MHz.