NASA Daily News Summary - amended
For Release:  July 18, 2000
Media Advisory m00-137


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  NASA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR MOTOR VEHICLE POLLUTION


VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***

  VIDEO FILE FOR JULY 18, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


NASA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR MOTOR VEHICLE POLLUTION

     Cities and states may soon have a new high-tech tool in the
battle against automotive air pollution, thanks to NASA satellite
technology originally developed to track global greenhouse gases
and the Earth's protective ozone layer.  As envisioned, NASA's
atmospheric remote sensing technology will be adapted to an
autonomous roadside system to monitor motor vehicle emissions.
Cars and trucks will pass through a low-power light beam, without
stopping or slowing down.  Space-age sensor technology will
instantly analyze vehicle exhaust pollutants important to local
and state governments working to meet federally mandated air
quality standards.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus
(Phone:  202/358-1979).
Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA:  H. Keith
Henry (Phone:  757/864-6120).
Contact at SPX Service Solutions, Tucson, AZ:  Jeri Collins or
Craig Rendahl (Phone:  616/329-7731 - 520/241-1572)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-109.txt



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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 JULY 18, 2000

    ITEM 1 - NASA SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TO MONITOR MOTOR VEHICLE
             POLLUTION
    ITEM 2 - HAUGHTON MARS PROJECT - JSC
    ITEM 3 - MISSE EXPERIMENT (SPACE STATION-RELATED) - GRC
             (REPLAY)


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

July 18, Tuesday
*1:00 p.m. - Eileen Collins Testimony to the House Subcommittee on
Technology (originally recorded on 7/13/00) - HQ
*4:00 p.m. - Eileen Collins Testimony to the House Subcommittee on
Technology (originally recorded on 7/13/00) - HQ
*7:00 p.m. - Eileen Collins Testimony to the House Subcommittee on
Technology (originally recorded on 7/13/00) - HQ
*10:00 p.m. - Eileen Collins Testimony to the House Subcommittee
on Technology (originally recorded on 7/13/00) - HQ

July 19, Wednesday
4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - How to View Comet Linear Live News Interviews -
JPL

July 20, Thursday
6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - How To View International Space Station Live
News Interviews - MSFC

July 21, Friday
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. - Summer Scholar Live News Interviews - MSFC


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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