[sarex] EXP 7 CREW READY FOR INTERVIEWS

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Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington                 November 18, 2003
(Phone: 202/358-4769)

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)



SEVENTH SPACE STATION CREW AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS

     Back on Earth, only three weeks after more than six 
months in space, the seventh crew of the International Space 
Station, Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA Station Science 
Officer Ed Lu, are available for satellite interviews from 
6:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST Friday. The interviews will broadcast 
live on NASA Television.

Malenchenko and Lu were the first two-man crew to live aboard 
the Station. They're also the first resident crew to travel 
to-and-from the orbiting laboratory aboard a Russian Soyuz 
spacecraft. Their mission, designated Expedition 7, launched 
on April 26 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan and 
landed Oct. 27 in Kazakhstan.

Lu, a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University, 
considers Honolulu and Webster, N.Y., his hometowns. 
Malenchenko, a Ukrainian, is a colonel in the Russian Air 
Force.

Video highlights of Lu and Malenchenko's stay aboard the 
Station will air on NASA TV beginning at 6 a.m. EST Nov. 21. 
Media interested in interviewing Lu and Malenchenko must 
contact Stephanie Zeluck at NASA's Johnson Space Center at: 
281/483-9071 or use her pager: 713/508-0581.

NASA Television is available on AMC-9, transponder 9C, C-Band, 
located at 85degrees west longitude. The frequency is 3880.0 
MHz. Polarization is vertical, and audio is monaural at 6.80 
MHz.


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