NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: Jan. 27, 2000
Media Advisory m00-016
SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES:
No News Releases Today
VIDEO:
ALL TIMES EASTERN
LIVE TELEVISION EVENT
STS-99 Crew Arrival at JSC
At approximately noon – time subject to change
Video File for Jan. 27, 2000
ITEM 1 – TODAY’S STS-99 CREW ARRIVAL AT KSC (replay)
ITEM 2 – SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION ANIMATION – JSC
ITEM 3 – SOLAR MAXIMUM – MSFC
ITEM 4 – SOLVE MISSION – EXAMINING OZONE DEPLETION
ITEM 5 – JOHN GLENN RETURNS TO SPACE – STS-95 B-ROLL (replay)
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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 Jan. 27, 2000
ITEM 1 – TODAY’S STS-99 CREW ARRIVAL AT KSC (replay)—–TRT 11:00
The Crew for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) arrived
at Kennedy Space Center at approximately 12 noon EST on Jan. 27,
2000, flying T-38 jet airplanes. The SRTM mission is scheduled to
liftoff on Monday at 12:47 pm EST.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne C. Brown
(Phone 202/358-1726).
ITEM 2 – SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION
ANIMATION – JSC———————————TRT 16:14
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne C. Brown
(Phone 202/358-1726).
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz
(Phone 202/358-1730).
ITEM 3 – SOLAR MAXIMUM – MSFC
Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL: Steve
Roy (Phone 205/544-0034).
ITEM 3a – SOLAR MAXIMUM ANIMATION————————-TRT 4:40
ITEM 3b – INTERVIEW EXCERPTS——————————TRT 4:10
David Hathaway, NASA Scientist, MSFC
ITEM 4 – SOLVE MISSION – EXAMINING OZONE DEPLETION
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz
(Phone 202/358-1730).
Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA: John
Bluck (Phone 650/604-5026).
ITEM 4a – SOLVE SCIENTISTS WORKING IN SWEDEN————–TRT 6:36
The SOLVE mission is an international scientific and research
effort to study Arctic ozone. The field campaign is being
conducted in Kiruna, Sweden. Footage shows preparation at the
Arena Arctica hangar of NASA¹s ER-2 (smaller) and DC-8 (larger)
specially equipped airplanes, taxi and takeoff. Footage also
includes an arctic sunrise.
ITEM 4b – INTERVIEW EXCERPTS——————————TRT 1:35
Gordon Fullerton, DC-8 Pilot for SOLVE and former NASA Astronaut,
Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA
ITEM 4c – INTERVIEW EXCERPTS——————————TRT 2:09
Valery Zahkarin, Russian Team Leader for SOLVE and General of the
Russian Air Force, retired (speaking through an interpreter)
ITEM 4d – INTERVIEW EXCERPTS——————————TRT 2:21
Phil DeCola, SOLVE Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC
ITEM 5 – JOHN GLENN RETURNS TO SPACE –
STS-95 B-ROLL (replay)—————————TRT 5:57
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen M.
Hawley (Phone 281/483-5111).
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