05.29.07

James Hartsfield
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111 

Allard Beutel
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-4769

RELEASE: M07-059

NASA TV SETS INTERVIEWS FOR NEXT SHUTTLE MISSION FLIGHT DIRECTOR

HOUSTON - The lead flight director for NASA's first space shuttle 
mission this year, STS-117, will be available for satellite 
interviews from 6-8 a.m. CDT Friday, June 1. 

STS-117 Lead Space Station Flight Director Kelly Beck, raised in 
Cahokia, Ill., will oversee a flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis. The 
flight continues construction of the International Space Station and 
brings a new crew member to orbit to begin a five-month stay and will 
return home a station resident who has been in orbit since December. 
Atlantis is targeted for launch at 6:38 p.m. CDT June 8 on an 11-day 
mission. 

Beck will lead a team of flight directors, flight controllers, support 
personnel and engineering experts that will staff mission control in 
Houston, 24/7 during the mission. The ground control teams and 
spaceflight crews have used past missions' experiences, both 
challenges and successes, as a guide for this next step in space 
station assembly. At least three spacewalks will be conducted during 
Atlantis' flight. 

Beck's interviews will be conducted live via the NASA Television 
analog satellite. To participate, media must contact Tim Hinson at 
NASA's Johnson Space Center newsroom, 281-483-5111, no later than 2 
p.m. Thursday, May 31. 

The NASA TV analog satellite is AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude; 
transponder 5C, 3800 MHz, vertical polarization, with audio at 6.8 
MHz. For NASA TV downlink, schedule and streaming video information, 
visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

For more information about STS-117 and its crew, visit: 

http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle

	
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