Note: This electronic version of the summary for Aug.

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NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Aug. 26, 1998
Media Advisory 98-17
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NASA WEB SITES OFFER HURRICANE IMAGES

NASA's Global Hydrology and Climate Center offers Internet users images
Hurricane
Bonnie as it reaches the eastern U.S. coast. Go to:

http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/

and select "1 km Visible" images of North America. Color images of the hurricane
are also
available from NASA's SeaWiFS and GOES projects:

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goesb/chesters/web/goesproject.html

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GUIDELINES FOR COVERING SPACE STATION MODULE LAUNCH FROM

BAIKONUR

News media representatives wishing to cover the launch of the

first component of the International Space Station, the Zarya
Control Module, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan on Nov.
20, 1998, should contact their nation's space agency. For specific
contacts, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-053.txt

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NOTE: NASA MAY RECEIVE OTHER NEW HURRICANE BONNIE

SATELLITE
IMAGES. PLEASE CHECK THE 3 P.M. VIDEO FILE.

NASA Video File for Aug. 26, 1998

ITEM 1: Hurricane Bonnie: GOES Images

A sequence of images showing Hurricane Bonnie hitting the North

Carolina Coast taken on August 26, 1998, by the National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental
Satellite (GOES).

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Deanna Corridon 301/286-0041.

ITEM 2: HURRICANE BONNIE - SEAWIFS IMAGE

The latest image of Hurricane Bonnie taken on August 25, 1998 by NASA's Sea
Viewing Wide Field Spectrometer (SeaWiFS) sensor on the Sea Star satellite.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Deanna Corridon 301/286-0041.

ITEM 3: GLENN TAKES TO SKIES IN T-38 (replay)

Contact at Johnson Space Center: Eileen Hawley 281/483-5111.

ITEM 4: GLENN HISTORICAL FILE (replay)

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Ray Castillo 202/358-4555.

ITEM 5: FLYING OVER HURRICANE BONNIE (replay)

Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center: Tim Tyson 256/651-
5011; contact at Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

ITEM 6: NASA KEEPS AN EYE ON HURRICANE BONNIE (replay)

Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center: Tim Tyson 256/651-
5011; contact at Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

The NASA Video File airs at noon, 3, 6, 9 p.m. and midnight

Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray Castillo
(phone: 202/358-4555). NASA Television is available on GE-2,
transponder 9C at 85 degrees West longitude, with vertical
polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8
megahertz. The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found
at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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