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Space Shuttle Commander Mark Kelly will not be available for media interviews that had been scheduled from 3 p.m.-5 p.m. CDT Thursday, March 24, at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kelly will participate in a previously scheduled news conference with his crew at 2 p.m. CDT Thursday to discuss their upcoming STS-134 shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

The news conference will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

The other STS-134 crew members, pilot Greg H. Johnson and Mission Specialists Michael
Fincke, Greg Chamitoff, Andrew Feustel and European Space Agency astronaut Roberto Vittori, will be available for previously scheduled interviews from 3 p.m.-6 p.m. CDT Thursday.

All other Thursday briefings related to the STS-134 mission remain as planned.

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