For Release: July 29, 1996

Kathryn Cataldo
Office of Media Services
(205) 544-2188
Pager: (205) 544-1183, PIN: 0546

NOTE TO PRODUCERS/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS: 96-115

SATELLITE INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE TODAY WITH PILOT WHO WILL FERRY SPACE SHUTTLE ENDEAVOUR TO FT. CAMPBELL, KY

The Space Shuttle Endeavour, piggy back on its Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, is scheduled to visit Ft. Campbell, Ky., Tuesday, July 30, where it will be on public display throughout the day.

The NASA pilot of the aircraft carrying Endeavour is available for interviews, today, July 29, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. CDT, via satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He will be able to discuss the visit and the weather criteria that will have to be met for the Shuttle to land at Ft. Campbell. B-roll is also available.

Endeavour is NASA’s newest Shuttle. A veteran of 11 space flights, it was the Shuttle that launched the historic mission that serviced NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

To request an interview, or for further information, please contact Kathryn Cataldo at (205) 544-2188. Interviews will be conducted via NASA TV, which is on Spacenet 2, Transponder 5, at 69 degrees west longitude. The transponder frequency is 3880 Mhz and the audio subcarrier is 6.8 Mhz.