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NASA TV COVERAGE OF PROGRESS DOCKING TO ISS SET FOR AUG. 8

Dwayne C. Brown
Headquarters, Washington, DC                   August 4, 2000
(Phone: 202/358-1726)

Kyle Herring
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone:  281/483-5111)

NOTE TO EDITORS:  N00-37

NASA TV COVERAGE OF PROGRESS DOCKING TO ISS SET FOR AUG. 8

     NASA Television will provide live coverage of and commentary 
on the Progress supply vehicle's docking to the International 
Space Station beginning at 4 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 8.  Docking 
currently is targeted for 4:14 p.m. EDT.  The black-and-white 
camera on the Progress should be activated a few minutes prior to 
the linkup, showing the ISS as the cargo vehicle approaches.

     The module is scheduled for launch at 2:26 p.m. EDT Sunday, 
Aug. 6, atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 
Kazakhstan.  The launch will not be televised.  Following two days 
of rendezvous maneuvers, the vehicle will automatically dock to 
the newest station component, the Zvezda service module.

     Packed inside are clothes, computers, food and other supplies 
for use by the first permanent residents of the new complex.  The 
Progress will be unpacked by the crew of shuttle mission STS-106 
when it arrives in early September.

     NASA TV can be located on GE-2, Transponder 9C at 85 degrees 
West longitude, vertical polarization, with a frequency of 3880 
MHz, and audio of 6.8 MHz.  The Human Spaceflight website also 
includes an option to view NASA TV at: 

               http://spaceflight.nasa.gov

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