NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Sept. 27, 2000

Media Advisory m00-185

SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

DREAMTIME DELIVERS CUTTING EDGE TV TECHNOLOGY

VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***

VIDEO FILE FOR SEPT. 27, 2000

UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS

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DREAMTIME DELIVERS CUTTING EDGE TV TECHNOLOGY

NASA's multimedia partner, Dreamtime Holdings, Inc., has

delivered the first of two shipments of high definition television
equipment that will be used to provide cutting-edge coverage of
upcoming space missions.

Marshall Space Flight Center has received, assembled and tested

this first of two deliveries from Dreamtime. NASA estimates the
television equipment is worth $100,000 and it's expected improve
the quality of ground television coverage of space launches, as
well as provide enhanced documentation of Earth-based scientific
and research activities.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Deborah Rivera

(Phone: 202/358-1743)
Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL:
Jerry Berg (Phone: 256/544-0034)

For full text see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-153.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 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

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

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Video File for Sept. 27, 2000

Item 1 - Fountains of Fire (Trace) - GSFC (replay)

Item 2 - Largest Sunspot in Nine Years - GSFC (replay)
Item 3 - STS-92 mission animation and briefings b-roll (replay)
Item 4 - Volunteer Professionals for Medical Advancement - JPL
(replay)
Item 5 - The NASA Space Shuttle, narrated by Astronaut Bill
Readdy

NOTE: The Gallery Hour will feature a 100th Shuttle Mission Clip
Reel (approx. 58:00)

Today's reel includes highlights from 1991-2000. Missions selected

include STS-49, STS-61, STS-60, STS-71, STS-79, STS-90, STS-95,
STS-88, STS-93. Broadcast tomorrow will be highlights from the
first 10 years of the shuttle program. For more information on
each mission clip, see below.
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MISSION CLIPS INFORMATION

1. STS-49 / May 1992

Maiden flight of Endeavour.

Rescue of Intelsat satellite.
First 3-person EVA.
This was a high profile rescue mission that received huge media
attention.
First Shuttle mission flown with Dan Goldin as Administrator.

2. STS-61 / December 1993

HST restored to full capability

Record 5 spacewalks spanning more than 35 hours of EVA time

3. STS-60 / February 1994

1st flight of a Russian cosmonaut on the Shuttle

1st flight of Wakeshield Facility
First Shuttle flight to represent the new cooperative effort with
Russia
President Clinton congratulates crew from MCC during JSC visit.

4. STS-71 / June 1995

First Mir docking mission

1st docking between U.S. and Russia since 1975 Apollo-Soyuz
mission
Goldin at landing, present Norm Thagard with welcome home meal.

5. STS-79 / September 1996

4th Shuttle-Mir docking.

1st exchange of U.S. crewmembers on Mir
Lucid returns after U.S. record stay in space (188 days, and 75.2
million
miles in orbit).
Goldin with President at crew return at Ellington Field

6. STS-90 / April 1998 -- Neurolab

Final scheduled flight of Spacelab.

Good representation of the science that will be done on the Space
Station

7. STS-95 / October 1998

Glenn becomes oldest human in space at age 77

Huge media coverage at launch

8. STS-88 / December 1988

1st ISS assembly mission mates Unity with Zayra

9. STS-93 / July 1999

Chandra Observatory
First female shuttle commander
Chandra X-Ray Observatory joins NASA great observatories

10. STS-92 / October 2000

100th Shuttle mission to be launched

(This information is running in the videofile)

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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA

VIDEO
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

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

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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS

September 28, Thursday

- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - NASA LED Research Used to Treat Cancer and
Trauma Live News Interviews - MSFC
- 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - SRTM, The Big Apple Like You've Never Seen It
Before Live News Interviews - JPL

October 2, Monday
- 9:00 a.m. - STS-92 L-3 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC
- 11:00 - 11:15 a.m. - Space Flight Awareness Video Uplink - JSC

October 3, Tuesday
- 9:00 a.m. - STS-92 L-2 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC
- 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. - Young Astronauts - MSFC
- 4:00 p.m. - STS-92 Launch Readiness Press Briefing - KSC

October 4, Wednesday
- 6:00 - 8:30 a.m. - Largest Ozone Hole Observed Over Antarctica
Live News Interviews - GSFC
- *8:30 - 10:00 a.m. - Largest Ozone Hole Observed Over Antarctica
Live News Interviews continued on GE 2 Transponder 18C)
- 9:00 a.m. - STS-92 L-1 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC
- 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. - STS-92 Pad Shot - KSC

October 5, Thursday
- 5:00 - 9:00 a.m. - STS-92 Pad Shot - KSC
- 4:00 p.m. - STS-92 Live Coverage and Commentary Begins - KSC
- 9:30 p.m. - STS-92 Launch - KSC

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html

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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

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.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,

Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/

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