NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  June 2, 2000
Media Advisory m00-109


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  NASA, DREAMTIME PARTNERSHIP PROPELS
  SPACE INFORMATION AGE TO NEW HEIGHTS
    Internet portal, interactive space
    experiences, digital images planned
              by new venture



VIDEO

  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  No Video File Today


  NOTE:  The 1 p.m. NASA Multimedia Commercialization Announcement
         will be replayed throughout the day.


  NOTE:  a status report of the deorbit of the Gamma Ray
         Observatory is available at:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/media/2000/CGRO_status_06-01.txt


  LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY REGARDING TODAY'S MULTIMEDIA
  PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT


  UPCOMING LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


  NASA, DREAMTIME PARTNERSHIP PROPELS
  SPACE INFORMATION AGE TO NEW HEIGHTS
    Internet portal, interactive space
    experiences, digital images planned
              by new venture

NASA and Dreamtime Holdings, Inc., have formed a partnership that
will deliver the adventures of the space frontier through the new
technologies of the digital frontier.  The unprecedented agreement
was announced today at NASA's Ames Research Center, in the heart
of California's Silicon Valley.  It includes provisions to
provide, for the first time, high-definition television coverage
of astronaut activities aboard the International Space Station and
on Space Shuttle missions.  It will also create an easily
accessible, Web-searchable, digital archive of the best of NASA's
space imagery.  The NASA-Dreamtime partnership will provide
unprecedented public access to space exploration by creating a
state-of-the-art multimedia portal, www.Dreamtime.com, that will,
with the click of a mouse, open the door to thousands of images,
sounds, documents, blueprints and plans from NASA's currently
underused archives.  Roll out of the in-depth portal site will
begin within the next several months.


For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-087.txt

Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Peggy
Wilhide/Biran Welch (Phone 202/358-1600).



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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 INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY REGARDING TODAY'S MULTIMEDIA
PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT

ATTENTION:
NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITORS AND AFTERNOON & EVENING PRODUCERS

Live NASA interviews will be available today from 2-6 p.m. PDT on
Telstar 5 (97 degrees west) transponder 25 vertical downlink
frequency 12146.0 mhz audio 6.2-6.9 mhz.

NASA ANNOUNCES FIRST MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT

This morning at 10 a.m. PDT NASA and its newest commercial partner
will announce a major multimedia collaboration.

From 2-6 p.m. PDT (5-9 p.m. EDT) Brian Welch, NASA's Director of
Media Services will be available for live satellite interviews
from the NASA AMES Research Center in Mountain View, CA.

Welch was part of the NASA team that worked on this groundbreaking
partnership that will revolutionize the way NASA's visual images
are distributed to the media and the American public.

Possible questions:

__What does this first major international space station agreement
mean?

__How will this partnership affect life on the International Space
Station?

__How will astronauts benefit from this innovative public-private
partnership for multimedia and space imagery?

__What does this agreement mean for the American public?

__How will NASA use its news HDTV resources?

To schedule a live shot please call Fred Brown at (650) 604-
0429/5018 or page at (800) 759-8888 pin 1239840.



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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS


NOTE: NASA will replay the multimedia announcement press
conference every 1 1/2 hours today, beginning at 3 p.m. EDT, and
Saturday and Sunday, as Compton Gamma Ray Observatory events
permit.


June 2, Friday
- 1:00 p.m. - NASA Multimedia Commercialization Announcement -
  Ames (Questions will originate from the Ames Research Center
  only.)

June 3, Saturday
- 11:30 p.m. - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry Live Coverage
  and Commentary - GSFC

June 4, Sunday
- 1:30 a.m. - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry (no video will
  be available) - GSFC
- 6:00 a.m. - Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry News Briefing
- GSFC


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.

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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