jacques van oene

Aug. 3, 2006

Katherine Trinidad
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-3749

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

MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-124

SPACE STATION CREW CHATS WITH FC BARCELONA SOCCER TEAM

The International Space Station crew will take a special call at 4:10
p.m. EDT, Tuesday, Aug. 8, from members of the European champion
soccer team, FC Barcelona. During a visit to NASA's Johnson Space
Center, Houston, the team will stop in Mission Control to make the
call. NASA TV will broadcast the event live.

The FC Barcelona team will be in Houston to play an Aug. 9 exhibition
game against Club America, one of Mexico's top club teams. Players,
coaches and guests of the team will visit mission control rooms used
for the station and shuttle, and the historic control room used
during Apollo missions and lunar landings. They will also visit
training facilities including full-scale mockups of the station and
shuttle. The private tour of Johnson Space Center is not open to the
public. Media coverage of the visit is only by pool. Media should
call the Johnson news room for details.

The space station is home to NASA astronaut Jeff Williams, Russian
cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas
Reiter. Each crew member is spending approximately six months onboard
the station.

For links to streaming video, digital downlink and NASA TV
information, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about the space station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station


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