NASA Sets News Conference With Shuttle And Space Station Crews

HOUSTON -- The nine crew members aboard space shuttle Endeavour and
the International Space Station will hold a news conference starting
at 4:42 a.m. CDT on Thursday, May 26. Reporters may ask questions in
person from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Kennedy Space
Center in Florida and agency headquarters in Washington.

To participate, U.S. journalists must call the public affairs office
at one of the three venues by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 25. Reporters
at Johnson, not already credentialed for the STS-134 mission, must
request access badges by May 25. Reporters must be in place at least
20 minutes before the news conference.

Participating crew members will be STS-134 Commander Mark Kelly, Pilot
Greg Johnson, Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Mike Fincke and
Greg Chamitoff; Expedition 28 Commander Andrey Borisenko, Flight
Engineers Ron Garan and Alexander Samokutyaev.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 40-minute news
conference. Part of the conference will be for European Space Agency
media outlets with live interpretation. NASA TV will replay the
interviews at 9:30 a.m.

For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Endeavour's mission includes four spacewalks and delivery of the Alpha
Magnetic Spectrometer-2 (AMS) and spare parts to the station.

For more information about the mission and crews, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

and

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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