Two NASA-Roscosmos Press Bfgs on Year-Long ISS Mission, 8:00 am CT & 9:00 am CT, Houston

05-Dec-2012 through 05-Dec-2012

NASA and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, will hold two briefings on December 5, 2012 to discuss the recently announced year-long International Space Station mission.  The mission itself will take place from spring 2015-spring 2016 and involve one Russian and one American.   Four Russians already have spent one year or more in space on missions to Russia's Mir space station; this will be the first time an American remains in space for one year continuously.  Other ISS crew members will come and go during their year-long stay.

The first briefing on December 5 at 8:00 am CT (9:00 am ET) will discuss programmatic aspects of the mission.  The second, an hour later, will be with the two crew members

• Briefing 1:  8:00 am CT (9:00 am ET)
  • -- Michael Suffredini, International Space Station program manager
    -- Julie Robinson, International Space Station program scientist
    -- Robert Behnken, NASA chief astronaut
    -- Alexey Krasnov, director of Piloted Space Programs Department, Roscosmos
    -- Sergei Krikalev, director, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
    -- Igor Ushakov, director, Institute for Biomedical Problems
• Briefing 2:  9:00 am CT (10:00 am ET)
  • -- NASA astronaut Scott Kelly
    -- Roscosmos cosmonaur Mikhail Kornienko

NASA TV will cover both briefings, which originate from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, but include participants from Russia's mission control center outside of Moscow.   More details are in the press release, which is reproduced below:

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-221

NASA, ROSCOSMOS HOLD BRIEFINGS AND INTERVIEWS DEC. 5 FOR YEARLONG SPACE STATION MISSION

HOUSTON -- NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will
hold two briefings on Wednesday, Dec. 5, beginning at 8 a.m. CST, to
preview the upcoming yearlong expedition by two crew members aboard
the International Space Station. NASA Television and the agency's
website will carry the briefings live.

Scott Kelly of NASA and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos will launch to
the station in early 2015 to begin a yearlong stay aboard the
orbiting laboratory. This will be the longest time an American has
spent in space on a single mission.

Both briefings will take place at NASA's Johnson Space Center in
Houston and will include participants at Johnson and the Russian
Mission Control Center outside of Moscow. Questions will be taken
during both briefings from media at NASA centers and the Russian
control center. A limited number of questions from media also will be
taken via Johnson's phone lines.

The programmatic news conference at 8 a.m. will include:
-- Michael Suffredini, International Space Station program manager
-- Julie Robinson, International Space Station program scientist
-- Robert Behnken, NASA chief astronaut
-- Alexey Krasnov, director of Piloted Space Programs Department,
Roscosmos
-- Sergei Krikalev, director, Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
-- Igor Ushakov, director, Institute for Biomedical Problems

The crew news conference at 9 a.m. will include Kelly and Kornienko.

Individual interviews with Kelly and Robinson will be available to
media immediately after the crew news conference.

For those attending at Johnson, the deadline for U.S. reporters to
request credentials is Monday, Dec. 3. The deadline for international
residents is Thursday, Nov. 29. Reporters attending at other centers
should contact those centers' newsrooms for specific deadlines.

To participate via the phone, reporters must contact the Johnson
newsroom by noon on Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 281-483-5111, to request
approval. Approved media will be notified that afternoon and will be
required to call the Johnson newsroom at least 15 minutes before the
start of the first briefing on Wednesday. Media will not be able to
connect after the beginning of that briefing.

Reporters requesting individual interviews with Kelly and Robinson
need to contact Gayle Frere in the Johnson newsroom by Friday, Nov.
30.

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


http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

Join the conversation on Twitter by following the hashtag #ISS. To
learn more about all the ways to Connect and Collaborate with NASA,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/connect

For more information about the International Space Station and its
crew, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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