NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  August 24, 2000
Media Advisory m00-166


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  SMALL COMPANIES TO STUDY POTENTIAL USE OF
  EMERGING LAUNCH SYSTEMS FOR ALTERNATIVE
  ACCESS TO SPACE STATION



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 24, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


SMALL COMPANIES TO STUDY POTENTIAL USE OF EMERGING LAUNCH SYSTEMS
FOR ALTERNATIVE ACCESS TO SPACE STATION

NASA has awarded four small businesses 90-day contracts totaling
$902,000 to develop concepts and requirements to provide access to
the International Space Station on emerging launch systems. These
studies could uncover a potential backup capability, augmenting
the station's primary resupply vehicles * the U.S. Space Shuttle,
Russian Progress, European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle
and the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicles.

Companies selected are:
Andrews Space and Technology of El Segundo, CA, $195,000
Microcosm, Inc. of El Segundo, CA, $198,000
HMX Ltd. of Reno, NV, $245,000
Kistler Aerospace Corp. of Kirkland, WA, $264,000


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Kirsten  Williams
(Phone: 202/358-0243)
Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL:
Dave Drachlis (Phone:  256/544-0034)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2000/c00-g.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 - August 24, 2000


ITEM 1 - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IMAGE OF ORION TRAPEZIUM BROWN
         DWARF STARS - STSCI

ITEM 2 - EXTREME GRAVITY: BENDING TIME AND SPACE - GSFC

ITEM 3 - UPDATE ON HURRICANE DEBBY, SEAWIFS VIEWS OF U.S. FIRES
         AND LANDSAT 7 IMAGERY OF THE FIRES (REPLAY)

For digital images see: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html



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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 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.



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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS


August 24, Thursday
- 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. - JSC Open House Live News Interviews - JSC

August 25, Friday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Microgravity Research on the International
  Space Station 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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Contract Awards

Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information
Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html



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