NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  April 5, 2000
Media Advisory m00-67


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES:

None Today.



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VIDEO


VIDEO FILE:

Item 1 - NASA Sees Significant Arctic Ozone Loss
Item 2 - The Great Moonbuggy Races
Item 3 - Research Wind Turbine Test
Item 4 - Breast Cancer Infrared Tool (replay)

LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK

SPECIAL NOTICE TO TV PRODUCERS:  HUBBLE'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY


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NEWS RELEASES


None Today.



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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

LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK:

April 6, Thursday

- 1:30 pm - STS-101 TCDT Pad Q& A (Questions from Kennedy Space
  Center only) - KSC
- 4:00 - 5:00 pm - Marshall Moonbuggy Remote Uplink Test - Space
  and Rocket Center, AL
- 5:30 - 10:00 pm - Ulysses Sails Through a Comet Live News
  Interviews - JPL

April 7, Friday

- 6:00 - 10:00 am - Moon Buggy Races Live News Interviews - MSFC
- 10:00 am - 12:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ
- 1:00 - 6:00 pm - FIRST Robotics National Finals - Epcot Center,
  Orlando, FL (direct uplink to NTV)
- 7:00 am - 9:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ
- *9:30 - Midnight - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ

April 8, Saturday

- 8:00 am - 6:00 pm - FIRST Robotics National Finals - Epcot
  Center, Orlando, FL (direct uplink to NTV)

April 9, Sunday

- Noon - 2:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ
- 3:00 - 5:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ
- 6:00 - 8:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ
- 9:00 - 11:30 pm - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Appropriations
  Committee (recorded on 4/6/00) - HQ



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SPECIAL NOTICE TO TV PRODUCERS:  HUBBLE'S 10TH ANNIVERSARY

-------- LIVE SATELLITE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY --------

Celebrate Hubble1s 10th Birthday!

- Take a video tour of some of Hubble1s greatest hits
- Five new stamps to be issued of Hubble favorites

In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) rocketed into
space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery – bringing a brilliant
new golden age of astronomy.  Hubble1s stunning pictures have
revolutionized astronomy and astounded the public.  Though Hubble
has only been in operation for 10 years, its phenomenal influence
on our civilization's perception of the vast and mysterious
universe will be felt for a long time to come.

Hubble Project Scientists Dr. David Leckrone and Dr. Malcom
Niedner are available on Monday, April 10, from 5:40 – 11:00 a.m.
EDT to discuss Hubble's legacy of achievement.

Ask the scientists about Hubble:

- Hubble1s images have captivated both scientists and the general
public.  How has Hubble changed our understanding of our place in
the universe?  (visual:  beauty montage)

- What are Hubble1s greatest discoveries? (visual:  discovery
montage)

- The Post Office is releasing five new stamps today.  Can you
give us a sneak peek at the new stamps? (visual: stamp montage)

- Hubble is the first and only telescope that is serviceable by
spacewalking astronauts.   How have the servicing missions
extended Hubble1s scientific powers? (visual:  spacewalk montage).

- What new upgrades do you have planned for Hubble and when will
the astronauts next visit?

- What are the advantages of a spaceborne telescope?

- What is your favorite Hubble image?

To bool a Window:  Deanna Corridon 301-286-0041, Wade Sisler 301-
286-6256, pager 888-474-0914.
TV-Control room number 301-286-6146.

The interviews:  come to you from NASA1s Goddard Space Flight
Center in Greenbelt, MD.

- The interviews from 5:40 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. will be broadcast
on GE-2, transponder 9C, C-Band, located at 85 degrees West
longitude.  The frequency is 3880.0 MHz. Polarization is vertical
and audio is monaural at 6.8 MHz.

- Interviews from 8:30 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. will be broadcast on
KU-Band – Telstar 5, transponder 11 at 97 degrees West longitude,
vertical polarization, frequency - 11929 MHz, and audio at 6.6/6.8
MHz.

B-Roll will be fed at 5:30 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 10.    Full
video package will run April 10 & 11th during the NASA-TV (GE-2
transponder 9C) Video File feed scheduled for noon EDT.



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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

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.

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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Add to NASA News Summary for April 5, 2000
m00-067a.txt

New, Improved Atlantis Set for April 24 Launch to Station

     Following a review of flight readiness, Space Shuttle
managers today confirmed April 24 as the launch date for Atlantis
on a mission that will continue the development of the orbiting
International Space Station. Atlantis' mission will be the first
flight of a new Shuttle "glass cockpit" and more than a dozen other
Shuttle improvements.

     Atlantis' liftoff is planned for approximately 4:15 p.m. EDT,
within a 10-minute launch window. The precise launch time and
window could vary slightly and will be established about 24 hours
ahead of liftoff to optimize the Shuttle's performance.

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-056.txt


Headquarters contact: Dwayne C. Brown (Phone:  202/358-1726)

Johnson Space Center contact: James Hartsfield (Phone:  281/483-5111)

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Second add to NASA News Summary for April 5, 2000
m00-067b

Strangers in the Night: Ulysses Spacecraft Meets a Comet

During an unplanned rendezvous, the Ulysses spacecraft found itself gliding though the
immense tail of Comet Hyakutake, revealing that comet tails may be much, much longer
than previously believed. "This tail extends half a billion kilometers (more than 300 million
miles). That's more than three times the distance from the Earth to the Sun," said Dr.
Nathan Schwadron, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Findings appear in the April
6 issue of the journal Nature.

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-055.txt

Headquarters contact: Dolores Beasley (Phone: 202/358-1753)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory contact: Jane Platt (Phone: 818/354-5011)

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NASA Selects its Inventions of the Year

It won't be long before such diverse products as lipstick, art and circuit boards could benefit
from a thermoplastic developed for use in space.  NASA thinks so much of the
thermoplastic's commercial potential that it named the high-tech material its 1999
Commercial Invention of the Year.  A research team from NASA's Langley Research
Center, Hampton, VA, developed the winning invention.

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-053.txt

Headquarters contact: Sonja Alexander (Phone: 202/358-1761)

Langley Research Center contact: Keith Henry (Phone: 757/864-6120/24)

Goddard Space Flight Center contact: James Sahli (Phone: 301/286-4084)

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NASA to Test Wind Turbine in World's Largest Wind Tunnel

For the first time ever, engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center will begin testing a
wind turbine this month in the world's largest wind tunnel to learn how to design and
operate the turbines more efficiently.  The three-week test of the U.S. Department of
Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) "Unsteady Aerodynamics"
research wind turbine is scheduled to begin April 17.  Tests will be conducted in Ames' 80-
by-120-Foot Wind Tunnel.  The wind tunnel is primarily used for determining low- and
medium-speed aerodynamic characteristics of full-scale aircraft and rotorcraft (helicopters).

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-054.txt

Headquarters contact: Michael Braukus (Phone: 202/358-1979)

Ames Research Center contact: Michael Mewhinney (Phone: 650/604-3937)

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