NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: March 8, 1999

Media Advisory m99-046

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Summary

-- News release on forum highlighting Spacelab missions

-- Video file for March 8
-- Media briefing on predicting solar eruptions, March 9
-- Live interview opportunities for solar eruption story,
March 9

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News Releases for March 8

NASA TO COMMEMORATE SPACELAB: A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE

NASA is sponsoring a forum highlighting the history and

science accomplishments of the Spacelab series of Space
Shuttle missions, which took place from 1981 - 1998. The
forum will be held March 10-11, 1999, at the National
Research Council, 2100 C Street, NW, Washington, DC. Contact:
Renee Juhans 202/358-1712.

Full text of the release:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/99-14

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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Contract Awards

Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition

Information Service Web site:

http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html
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Video File for March 8, 1999

ITEM 1: X-38 FLIGHT TEST (replay)

Contact at Headquarters: Dwayne C. Brown, 202/358-1726;
contact at Dryden Flight Research Center: Fred A. Brown,
805/258-2663; contact at Johnson Space Center: James
Hartsfield, 281/483-5111.

ITEM : X-33 Launch Site Completed (replay)

Contact at Headquarters: Jim Cast 202/358-1779; contact
at Dryden Flight Research Center: Fred Brown 805/258-2663;
contact at Marshall Space Flight Center: Dom Amatore 256/544-
0031.

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

Eastern time. 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 at
6.8 megahertz. The full text of 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: Media briefing on predicting solar

eruptions

March 9, 1:00 2:00 p.m. EST, Headquarters, Washington, DC.

Scientists will announce potential tool for forecasting

enormous and violent explosions on the Sun's outer
atmosphere. The explosions, called coronal mass ejections,
are as powerful as billions of nuclear explosions and can
affect radio communications, electrical power systems and
satellites orbiting Earth.

Headquarters contact: Donald Savage, 202/358-1547;

Goddard Space Flight Center contact: Bill Steigerwald,
301/286-5017;
Montana State University contact: Annette Trinity Stevens,
406/994-5607.

Full text of the advisory can be found at:

ftp://ft
p.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-013.txt

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Upcoming Live Television Interview Opportunities: Solar

eruption story

March 9, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. EST

Research into predicting the largest and most disruptive

solar eruptions. Talent: Mr. Richard Canfield, Montana State
University, and Ms. Sarah Gibson, University of Cambridge,
England. To book a time, call Deanna Corridon or Wade Sisler
(301/286-0041 or 301/286-6256, pager, 888/474-0915 pager or
888-474-0914).

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