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Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov, or James Hartsfield of NASAs Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, james.a.hartsfield@nasa.gov

HOUSTON, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The astronauts, cosmonauts and spaceflight participant aboard the International Space Station will participate in a news conference at 12:20 p.m. CDT, Monday, Oct. 20. Reporters at participating NASA centers may ask questions.

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Expedition 17 Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko, who have been on the station since April, are scheduled to return to Earth with spaceflight participant Richard Garriott, a U.S. citizen, in the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft Oct. 23, landing in central Kazakhstan. Garriott, who flew under an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency, arrived at the station with Fincke and Lonchakov.

A change of command ceremony between the two crews will be broadcast on NASA Television at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22.

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

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the International Space Station, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/station

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