International Space Station Crew Holds News Conference

HOUSTON -- Three crew members launching in May to live and work aboard
the International Space Station will hold a news conference at 1 p.m.
CST on Monday, March 21, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the
agency's website. Questions will be taken from participating NASA centers.

NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov will
participate in individual round-robin interviews, in person or by
phone, following the news conference. The crew also will participate
in a photo opportunity for reporters at Johnson.

Media representatives planning to attend the briefing or participate
in the round-robin interviews must contact the Johnson newsroom at
281-483-5111 by 5 p.m. on Friday, March 11. All of the required
paperwork for international journalists must be submitted to the
newsroom by March 11.

Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov are three of the six crew members who will
comprise Expeditions 28 and 29. The trio is scheduled to launch to
the station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 30.

They will join Expedition 28 NASA astronaut Ron Garan, and Russian
cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko, who will stay
aboard the station until mid-September.

In early October, NASA's Dan Burbank, and Russia's Anton Shkaplerov
and Anatoly Ivanishin, will join Fossum, Furukawa and Volkov to
complete the Expedition 29 crew.
For astronaut and cosmonaut biographical information, visit:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the crew members and their mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition28

Source: NASA

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