NASA Sets Briefing with Members of Future Space Station Crews

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HOUSTON -- Three future residents of the International Space Station
will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. CDT Thursday, Sept. 17, from
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The news conference will air
live on NASA Television and the agency's Web site. Questions will be
taken from reporters at participating NASA sites.

NASA astronaut Timothy J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, and
Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are
scheduled to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft Dec. 7 from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They will dock with the space station two
days later and join Expedition 22 Commander Jeff Williams and Russian
cosmonaut Maxim Suraev as members of the resident crew.

After the briefing, the participants will be available for photographs
and individual interviews, in person or by telephone. To participate
in the interviews, journalists should contact the Johnson newsroom at
281-483-5111 by 5 p.m., Sept. 14.

Media representatives who are foreign nationals planning to attend the
briefing in person must contact the Johnson newsroom by 5 p.m., Aug.
26, to arrange credentials.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station