NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  April 11, 2000
Media Advisory m00-71


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES:

APRIL 24 MARKS A TRIUMPHANT TEN YEARS IN SPACE FOR HUBBLE TELESCOPE



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VIDEO


VIDEO FILE:

ITEM 1 - MGS IMAGES OF THE SOUTH POLE OF MARS - JPL
ITEM 2 - HUBBLE'S LEGACY - 10 YEAR PACKAGE (REPLAY)
ITEM 3 - HUBBLE STAMP CEREMONY (REPLAY)



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NEWS RELEASES


APRIL 24 MARKS A TRIUMPHANT TEN YEARS IN SPACE FOR HUBBLE TELESCOPE

A spectacular morning launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery ten
years ago, on April 24, 1990, ushered in a new golden age of
astronomy.  Since the payload in Discovery's cargo bay, NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope, was released into Earth orbit the next
day, the Universe hasn't looked the same since.  Even though
initially impaired by a flaw in its main mirror, Hubble's position
above the distortion of Earth's atmosphere enabled it to begin
making major discoveries even before astronauts first serviced it
in 1993.  When corrective optics were installed during that
dramatic first servicing mission, the Universe suddenly snapped
into sharp focus, and there followed a flood of spectacular images
and discoveries which have forever changed how we view the cosmos.
In its first ten years, the 12.5-ton Earth-orbiting Hubble has
studied 13,670 objects, made 271,000 individual observations, and
returned 3.5 terabytes of data, which have been archived as a
scientific treasure trove for future generations of astronomers.
Its rapid-fire scientific achievements have resulted in over 2,651
scientific papers.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Donald Savage
(Phone 202/358-1547).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Nancy
Neal (Phone 301/286-0039).
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD:  Ray
Villard (Phone 410/338-4707).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-059.txt



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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 11, Tuesday
- 1:00 - 2:00 - Live From the Storm:  Research to the Rescue -
  GSFC (switch to NTV from GE 3, 87 degrees West Ku-band,
  transponder 15.  Downlink polarization: Horizontal.  Frequency:
  12000.0 MHz Audio 6.2 and 6.8)

April 12, Wednesday
- 10:00 - Noon - Aero-Space Technology FY 2001 Budget Hearing
  before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (recorded
  on 4/11/00) - HQ
- 1:00 - 3:00 pm - Aero-Space Technology FY 2001 Budget Hearing
  before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (recorded
  on 4/11/00) - HQ
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm - Aero-Space Technology FY 2001 Budget Hearing
  before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (recorded
  on 4/11/00) - HQ
- 7:00 - 9:00 pm - Aero-Space Technology FY 2001 Budget Hearing
  before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (recorded
  on 4/11/00) - HQ
- 10:00 - Midnight - Aero-Space Technology FY 2001 Budget Hearing
  before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (recorded
  on 4/11/00) - HQ

April 13, Thursday
- 6:00 - 8:30 am - NASA and National Cancer Institute Nano-
  Explorer Live News Interviews - HQ

April 14, Friday
- 9:30 am - Noon - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the
  Senate Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies;
  Appropriations Committee (recorded 4/13/00) - HQ
- TBD - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the Senate
  Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; Appropriations
  Committee (recorded 4/13/00) - HQ
- 5:30 - 10:00 pm - New Sonic Drill for Space Research Live News
  Interviews - JPL

April 15, Saturday
- TBD - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the Senate
  Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; Appropriations
  Committee (recorded 4/13/00) - HQ

April 16, Sunday
- TBD - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the Senate
  Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; Appropriations
  Committee (recorded 4/13/00) - HQ



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