(11 Feb 2003) SHOTLIST
NASA - 11 Feb 2003
1. NASA mission control
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kenneth Bowersox, US astronaut at ISS
"Well, the folks on the ground have been real good about reducing our schedule and we've had time to grieve our friends. And that was very important, when you're up here this long, you can't just bottle up your emotions and focus all the time. It's important to acknowledge that the people on STS107 were our friends, that we had a connection with them and that we feel our loss. And that each of us had a chance to shed some tears."
3. NASA mission control
NASA - 10 Feb 2003
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana
4. Investigators sorting through Columbia shuttle debris
5. Close-up shuttle debris
6. Pan of shuttle debris on table
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Moscow, February 11 2003
7. Press conference given by James Newman, NASA representative in Russia, in progress
8. SOUNDBITE (English) James Newman, NASA representative in Russia
"My understanding is that there are high-level negotiations going on, I'm not familiar with details of those so I can't really tell what I don't know about. But I do know that there is the INA, the Iran Nonproliferation Agreement, and right now there is no relief for NASA from that. So I would imagine that our negotiations would continue "
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan - January 24, 2003
9. Launch of the Progress unmanned cargo spaceship
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Moscow, February 11 2003
10. SOUNDBITE (English) James Newman
"Our technical people right now are obviously working very closely with their Russian colleagues to understand what we can do with Progress and Soyuz flights that are already scheduled."
11. Press conference in progress
12. SOUNDBITE (English) James Newman
"Above all we learned from the Mir programme is that the recommendation is to avoid the unmanned space station because things can go wrong that could cause a problem with the space station"
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Korolev space mission control centre, near Moscow - February 4, 2003
13. Video screen at mission control showing Progress location,
14. Seen on monitor in mission control centre - Progress unmanned cargo spaceship docking with the International Space Station.
15. Various shots of people at computers in mission control.
STORYLINE
The three men living on the international space station on Tuesday said they had shed tears for their friends who died
aboard the space shuttle Columbia but added that they were now trying to move forward.
In their first public comments on the shuttle disaster, the three crew members also said their emotions seemed to be amplified in orbit because of the sense of solitude.
"When you're up here this long, you can't just bottle up your emotions and cope with it all the time," the commander of the space station, American astronaut Kenneth Bowersox, said from orbit.
Bowersox said he and his crew, American Donald Pettit and Russian Nikolai Budarin, listened in on last Tuesday's memorial at Johnson Space Center in honour of the seven Columbia astronauts.
After the ceremony, Bowersox said they had rung the space station's ship's bell seven times in tribute to their fallen friends.
The three have been in orbit since November and were supposed to return to Earth next month aboard a space shuttle.
But all shuttle flights are on indefinite hold because of the Columbia disaster.
All three said that they were prepared to remain in orbit as long as necessary, even up to a year.
The space station is equipped with a three-man lifeboat at all times and NASA is considering having them return in it, if their replacements arrive via another Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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