NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Oct. 27, 1999

Media Advisory m99-224

Summary:

FIRST FEMALE SHUTTLE COMMANDER EILEEN COLLINS RECEIVES

JACKIE
ROBINSON MEDAL

Video File for Oct. 27, 1999

ITEM 1 - SPACE TRANSPORTATION DAY

ITEM 2 - HUBBLE IDENTIFIES SOURCE OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT
IN AN OLD GALAXY (replay)
ITEM 3 - INSPECTION '99 PSAs - JSC (replay)

BROADCAST NOTE: NASA TV Coverage of Hearing on Space

Transportation Architecture Studies: The Future of Earth-to-Orbit
Spaceflight before the House Committee on Science's, Subcommittee
on Space and Aeronautics, taped today, 10:00 am noon

Broadcast schedule on NASA TV:

Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1:00 pm

Saturday, Oct. 30, noon
Sunday, Oct. 31, noon

NASA's Chief Engineer, Daniel Mulville, testified along with and

Rick Stephens, Vice President and General Manager, Reusable Space
Systems, Boeing Space and Communications; Michael Coats, Vice
President, Reusable Transportation Systems, Lockheed Martin
Astronautics; Dr. Michael Griffin, Executive Vice President and
Chief Technical Officer, Orbital Sciences Corporation; and Dr. Tom
Rogers, Chairman, Sophron Foundation.

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FIRST FEMALE SHUTTLE COMMANDER EILEEN COLLINS RECEIVES

JACKIE
ROBINSON MEDAL

NASA astronaut Eileen Collins, a New York native, today received

the state's highest award, the Jackie Robinson Empire State
Freedom Medal, for her achievement as the first female Space
Shuttle commander. Collins has "etched her mark on history by
knocking down barriers," said New York Gov. George E. Pataki, who
presented the award to Collins. "A bold pioneer of the reaches of
space, her talent, intelligence and courage set an example that
every woman and every man can hope to duplicate in their own
lives." The Freedom Medal, established in 1997, is given annually
to those who best demonstrate the qualities of determination,
dignity, fairness and honor that were exemplified by Jackie
Robinson, who broke major league baseball's color barrier.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Kirsten Williams

(Phone 202/358-0243).
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen Hawley
(Phone: 281/483-5111).

For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-125.txt

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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-

mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Video File for Oct. 27, 1999

ITEM 1 - SPACE TRANSPORTATION DAY

NASA's future space transportation plans -- from next year's
experimental rocket planes to the starships of the next millennium
-- is the focus of Space Transportation Day '99 today, Oct.
27, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
During the one-day conference, sponsored by NASA's Lead Center for
Space Transportation Systems Development, NASA officials will
discuss the latest goals and programs aimed at opening space to
greater commercialization and exploration. The conference will
give government, industry, academia and interest groups a chance
to review the status of both current projects, as well as future
plans, and offer feedback.

Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL:

June Malone (Phone 256/544-0034).

For more information see: http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/

ITEM 1A - VIDEO INCLUDES: X-33 ANIMATION, X-34 ANIMATION, TRT

8:13
X-37 ANIMATION, MAGLEV ANIMATION

ITEM 1B - INTERVIEW EXCERPTS: TRT :52

Dr. John Rogacki, Director, Space Transportation Directorate, NASA

Marshall Space Flight Center

ITEM 2 - HUBBLE IDENTIFIES SOURCE OF ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT TRT

:33
IN AN OLD GALAXY (replay)

Hubble Space Telescope's exquisite resolution has allowed

astronomers to resolve, for the first time, hot blue stars deep
inside an elliptical galaxy. The swarm of nearly 8,000 blue stars
resembles a blizzard of snowflakes near the core (lower right) of
the neighboring galaxy M32, located 2.5 million light-years away
in the constellation Andromeda. Hubble confirms that the
ultraviolet light comes from a population of extremely hot helium-
burning stars at a late stage in their life. Unlike the Sun, which
burns hydrogen into helium, these old stars exhausted their
central hydrogen long ago, and now burn helium into heavier
elements.
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: Ray
Villard (Phone 410/338-4707).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:
Thomas Brown (Phone 301/286-5765).
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage
(Phone 202/358-1547).

For further information see:

http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/40/

High resolution digital versions (300 dpi JPEG and TIFF)

are available at:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/40/pr-photos.html

ITEM 3 - INSPECTION '99 PSAs (replay) TRT: one @ :10 & one @ :30

The following videos are public service announcements for NASA's

Technology Showcase Inspection '99 at Johnson Space Center on
November 3 - 5, 1999.

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Ed Campion

(Phone 281/483-5111).

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