A series of press briefings, beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST
October 28, will preview delivery of new hardware and the new
Expedition Six crew scheduled to arrive at the International
Space Station (ISS) in early November. All briefings will be
conducted from NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Houston, and
broadcast on NASA Television.

Seven crewmembers, led by Commander Jim Wetherbee, are
scheduled to be launched Nov. 10 on mission STS-113 aboard
Space Shuttle Endeavour from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center,
Fla. The seven include the Expedition Six crew on a planned
11-day mission to install the P1 (Port One) truss segment,
complementing the recently installed S1 (Starboard One) truss
as the outward expansion of the ISS structural backbone
continues. The Expedition Five crew, aboard the station since
June, will return home with Endeavour’s astronauts.

The briefings also will feature previews of the work to be
performed by the Expedition Six crew during its planned four-
month ISS stay and crew news conferences to discuss both the
Expedition Six increment and the STS-113 mission.

Following the crew news conference, round-robin interviews
with the astronauts will be available to reporters at Johnson
and those who make prior phone arrangements by calling
Johnson’s newsroom by Friday Oct. 25. The round-robin
interviews will not be broadcast on NASA TV.

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.

The briefing schedule follows below (all times are Eastern):

8:30 a.m. — INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION OVERVIEW BRIEFING

  • Bill Gerstenmaier, ISS Program Manager

9:30 a.m. — STS-113 MISSION OVERVIEW BRIEFING

  • Paul Dye, STS-113 Lead Shuttle Flight Director
  • Mark Kirasich, STS-113 Lead ISS Flight Director

11:00 a.m. — P1 TRUSS OVERVIEW BRIEFING

  • Kim Ulrich, STS-113 Launch Package Manager

12:00 p.m. — NASA TELEVISION VIDEO FILE (from NASA
Headquarters, Washington)

12:30 p.m. — STS-113 EVA BRIEFING

  • Dana Weigel, STS-113 Lead EVA Officer

1:30 p.m. — EXPEDITION SIX INCREMENT OVERVIEW BRIEFING

  • Melissa Gard, Expedition Six Increment Manager
  • Vic Cooley, Expedition Six Increment Scientist
  • Lamar Stacy, Expedition Six Payload Operations Director, NASA
  • Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.

2:30 p.m. — EXPEDITION SIX INCREMENT CREW NEWS CONFERENCE

  • Ken Bowersox, Expedition Six Commander
  • Nikolai Budarin, Expedition Six Flight Engineer
  • Don Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer

3:30 p.m. — STS-113 / EXPEDITION SIX MISSION CREW NEWS
CONFERENCE

  • Jim Wetherbee, Commander
  • Paul Lockhart, Pilot
  • Mike Lopez-Alegria, Mission Specialist 1
  • John Herrington, Mission Specialist 2
  • Ken Bowersox, Expedition Six Commander
  • Nikolai Budarin, Expedition Six Flight Engineer
  • Don Pettit, Expedition Six NASA ISS Science Officer