NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: September 21, 1998

Media Advisory 98-33

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

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NASA Video File for Sept. 21, 1998

Upcoming Live Events:

NASA Administrator in the Classroom, Sept. 22
Deep Space 1 Prelaunch Briefing, Sept. 22
Undersea Challenge Mission, Sept. 23-30
Space Station Module Transfer Ceremony, Sept. 25
Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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No press releases have been issued today. If any are issued later, summaries and
Internet URLs will be e-mailed to this list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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Video File for September 21, 1998

ITEM 1: DISCOVERY ROLLS TO THE PAD FOR GLENN FLIGHT

On Monday, September 21, Discovery rolled from the Vehicle Assembly

Building to the Launch Pad.
Contact at Kennedy Space Center: Joel Wells 408/867- 2468; contact at
Headquarters: Ray Castillo 202/358-4555.

ITEM 2: SOUNDING ROCKET LAUNCHES EXPERIMENTS (replay)

Contact at Ames Research Center: John Bluck 650/604-5026.

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

Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray
Castillo, 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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Upcoming Live Events

STUDENTS GO BACK TO SCHOOL WITH NASA COMPUTERS

Students at Kramer Middle School in Washington, DC, will

show NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin how NASA-donated
computers will be used in their classroom on Tuesday, Sep.
22. Contact: Beth Schmid, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 202/358-1760. Full text of
Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-058.txt

DEEP SPACE 1 PRELAUNCH BRIEFING, SEP. 22

Representatives from NASA's Deep Space 1 mission team

will conduct a televised media briefing on the mission and
its goals on Tuesday, Sep. 22, at 2 p.m. EDT. Contact: Douglas Isbell, NASA HQ,
Washington, DC, 202/358-1547; John Watson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, CA, 818/354-5011. Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-057.txt

GOING "ALL OUT" UNDER WATER

NASA's Life Sciences Division is sponsoring the

Challenge Mission, an eight-day deployment of the Scott
Carpenter Space Analog Station on the sea floor off Key
Largo, Sep. 23-30. Contact: Jennifer McCarter, NASA HQ, Washington, DC,
202/358-1639. Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-056.txt

LEONARDO MPLM TRANSFER CEREMONY AT KSC SEPT. 25

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and the President of the Italian Space
Agency, Sergio De Julio, will meet at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, FL, on
Friday, Sept. 25 for a ceremonial event transferring the "Leonardo" Multipurpose
Logistics Module (MPLM) from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to NASA. Contact:
Debra Rahn Headquarters, Washington, DC (Phone: 202/358-1638); George Diller
or Lisa Malone, Kennedy Space Center, (Phone: 407/867-2468) Full text of Note
to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-059.txt

CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

NASA will brief industry and the public-at-large on

progress in meeting its aeronautics goals at the first
conference of this kind to be held Friday, Oct. 9, 1998, at
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.
Contacts: Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, 202/358-1979; Lori
Rachul, NASA Lewis Research Center, 216/433-8806.

For the full text of this Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-054.txt

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