NEW DATE AND TIME: ISS Crew News Conference / ESA TV Live / 22-09-2006

NEW DATE AND TIME: ISS Crew News Conference

ESA TV Live

Background information on the transmission:

Due to the Shuttle landing, NASA changed the date and time of this event that has been announced originally for 21 September.

Until 28 September, two long-duration Crews Expedition 13 and Expedition 14, are working together on the ISS. The crews are in the company of “space tourist” Anousheh Ansari.

The Crew News Conference provides media gathering at the various NASA Centres with an opportunity to ask questions (in English) to all six astronauts, among them ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter.

This live feed with their answers can be used by all broadcasters without restriction.

ESA-TV provides a live rebroadcast of the NASA-TV coverage of this event. Please note that NASA-TV programming is subject to last-minute schedule changes.

Please note that the line-up time for this SCPC feed is 5 minutes.

More background information can be found on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html.

Transmission details:Eutelsat Atlantic Bird at 12.5 degrees West Transponder F5, channel D horizontal, F=12.652 MHz, SR=6.1113 Ms/sec, FEC=3/4

For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.