[sarex] SPACE STATION SUPPLY SHIP COVERAGE ON NASA TV

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Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC

Dwayne Brown/Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington         Sept. 19, 2002
(Phone: 202/358-1012)

Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

RELEASE: N02-66

SPACE STATION SUPPLY SHIP COVERAGE ON NASA TV

     The undocking of a Russian Progress supply vehicle from 
the International Space Station and the arrival of a new 
Progress spacecraft will be covered on NASA Television, 
beginning next week.

The Progress 8 capsule will undock from the aft port of the 
Zvezda Service Module on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 9:57 a.m. EDT, 
with coverage of its departure beginning on NASA TV at 9:30 
a.m.

The undocking will clear the way for the Sept. 25 launch of 
the new Progress 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 
Kazakhstan, carrying food, fuel and supplies for Expedition 
Five Commander Valery Korzun, NASA Science Officer Peggy 
Whitson and Flight Engineer Sergei Treschev.

The Expedition Five crew is in the fourth month of a nearly 
six-month long mission on the outpost. The Progress is also 
carrying supplies for the new Expedition Six crew, which will 
arrive at the space station in November. There will be no 
television of the Progress 9 launch, but a written status 
report will be issued once it is in orbit.

The docking of the Progress 9 to Zvezda is scheduled for 1:07 
p.m. EDT Sunday, Sept. 29, and NASA TV will provide live 
coverage of its arrival, beginning at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

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. Additional information about Expedition 
Five and the International Space Station is available on the 
Internet at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

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