NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  August 17, 2000
Media Advisory m00-160


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  None Today.



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 17, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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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 FILE FOR AUGUST 17, 2000


    ITEM 1 - CHANDRA'S FIRST ANNIVERSARY - MSFC
    ITEM 2 - NEW  MISSION CONTROL TRAINING ROOM - JSC  (REPLAY)
    ITEM 3 - URBAN HEAT ISLANDS - MSFC (REPLAY FROM JUNE)
    ITEM 4 - THE STS-106 TERMINAL COUNTDOWN DEMONSTRATION TEST
             (AKA LAUNCH DRESS REHEARSAL) PAD QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
             (AND PAD SHOTS)



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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 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm
and midnight Eastern Time.



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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



August 17, Thursday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Chandra's First Anniversary Live News
  Interviews - MSFC
- 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. STS 106 TCDT Q&A


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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Add to NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  August 17, 2000
Media Advisory m00-160a


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  DR. ROBERT GILRUTH, AN ARCHITECT OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, DIES



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NEWS RELEASES


DR. ROBERT GILRUTH, AN ARCHITECT OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT, DIES

Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, an aerospace scientist, engineer, and one
of the pioneers of human space flight, died early today. He was
86.

Dr. Gilruth is best known as the first director of what would
become the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. With the beginning
of the space age and the creation of NASA, Dr. Gilruth was given
the task of putting a man in orbit with project Mercury.  While at
the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Dr. Gilruth conceived and
directed the Gemini program, which tested man's ability to
control, rendezvous, and dock spacecraft in Earth orbit.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Bob Jacobs (Phone:
202/358-1600)
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Ed Campion
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-039.txt



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