SUBMITTED BY ARTHUR N1ORC - AMSAT A/C #31468

Aug. 16, 2007

Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 allard.beutel@nasa.gov

James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov

SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR, SPACE STATION CREW NEWS CONFERENCE

HOUSTON - The 10 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station will participate in a news conference at 12:34 p.m. CDT on Friday, Aug. 17.

Media representatives at participating NASA locations and at the Canadian Space Agency in St. Hubert, Quebec, Canada, will be able to ask questions during the news conference.

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the 40-minute news

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

During Endeavour's STS-118 mission, the crew attached a segment to the right side of the station's backbone, activated the Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System, replaced a faulty attitude control gyroscope and broadcast educational messages from teacher-turned-astronaut Barbara R. Morgan.

For more information about the STS-118 mission and its crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

-end-

To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@mediaservices.nasa.gov