Official Nasa Communication N02-020

Kyle Herring Headquarters, Washington (Phone: 202/358-4504)

March 18, 2002

Eileen Hawley Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 281/483-5111) NOTE TO EDITORS: N02-20 NASA TV COVERAGE OF ISS SUPPLY-CRAFT DEPARTURE, ARRIVAL NASA Television will broadcast the undocking of a Russian Progress supply vehicle from the International Space Station (ISS) and the arrival of a new Progress craft to the station on Tuesday, March 19, and Sunday, March 24. The Progress 6 vehicle, which delivered supplies to the ISS late last year, will undock at 12:43 p.m. EST Tuesday, March 19, with commentary and coverage on NASA TV beginning at 12:30 p.m. Two days later, on March 21, the seventh Progress dedicated to outfitting and supplying the station with food, clothing and other equipment, will be launched at 3:13 p.m. EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. No television coverage will be available for the launch. However, its arrival at the station on March 24 will be carried live on NASA TV with commentary beginning at 3:30 p.m. EST. Docking to the Zvezda Service Module is scheduled for 4 p.m. EST. On board the ISS, Expedition Four Commander Yury Onufrienko, and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch are in the fourth month of a planned five-month mission, awaiting the early April launch of Atlantis on the STS-110 mission to deliver the centerpiece truss structure for the complex, which will be mounted on the Destiny Laboratory. 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. -end-