Space Station Crew Hosts News Conference To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of Human Spaceflight And 30th Of Space Shuttle

WASHINGTON -- The International Space Station partner agencies will
commemorate the golden anniversary of human spaceflight and 30 years
of space shuttle flights on Tuesday, April 12, with a news conference
featuring the six crew members in orbit 220 miles above Earth.
The 30-minute news conference will begin at 11:45 a.m. EDT and will
air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Accredited media representatives may participate from NASA
Headquarters in Washington, the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Kennedy Space Center in Florida and international partner locations.
To attend U.S. journalists must contact their respective NASA
newsroom by 4 p.m. on Monday, April 11.

Expedition 27, the 27th crew to live and work aboard the station,
consists of Commander Dmitry Kondratyev, his cosmonaut colleagues
Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev, NASA astronauts Cady
Coleman and Ron Garan, and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli.

The crew is conducting scientific research, performing station
maintenance and preparing for the arrival of space shuttle Endeavour
and its six astronauts, scheduled to launch at 3:47 p.m. on April 29
from Kennedy. During the STS-134 mission, the crew will install the
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a new science instrument that will
search for dark matter and the origins of our universe. The
astronauts also will deliver supplies and spare parts and complete
four spacewalks to service and outfit the orbiting outpost.

For more information about the station and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

For more information about the upcoming STS-134 mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Source: NASA

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