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Mir 24 Crew News Conference Set

Debbie Rahn/Jennifer McCarter                 December 9, 1997
Headquarters, Washington, DC
(Phone:  202/358-1639)

Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone:  281/483-3671)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N97-89

MIR 24 CREW NEWS CONFERENCE SET

    The three Mir 24 crewmembers, including U.S. astronaut David 
Wolf, will hold a news conference from the Mir space station on 
Friday, Dec. 12, starting at approximately 10:05 a.m. EST.  The
news conference, to be broadcast on NASA Television, will include
multicenter question-and-answer capability for reporters at
participating NASA centers.

    The news conference will be carried through the Russian Altair satellite
during a 30-minute window for television capability from the Mir, to be 
transmitted to the U.S. by satellite from the Russian Mission 
Control Center. Interpretation will be provided for questions 
posed in English to the Russian crewmembers and their answers in 
English for members of the news media.

    Mir 24 Commander Anatoly Solovyev and Flight Engineer Pavel 
Vinogradov have been aboard Mir since August and are scheduled to 
be replaced by another cosmonaut crew in late January.  Wolf is 
nearing the end of his third month aboard the Mir.  He is 
scheduled to be replaced in late January by astronaut Andy Thomas, 
who will be launched to the Mir as part of the STS-89 crew as the 
final U.S. astronaut to occupy the Russian outpost. 

    NASA Television is carried on GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85 
degrees West longitude, vertical polarization, frequency 3880 Mhz, 
audio 6.8 Mhz.

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