NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  July 26, 2000
Media Advisory m00-143


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  PAST SPACE PLATFORMS NO COMPARISON TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE
  STATION

  NASA NAMES ASTRONAUT CANDIDATE CLASS OF 2000



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***

  VIDEO FILE FOR JULY 26, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


PAST SPACE PLATFORMS NO COMPARISON TO INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

     Experts in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and
general science proclaimed yesterday that the International Space
Station moves to the "head of the class" compared to the Spacelab
and Mir programs.

     "Research opportunities in the biomedical field during those
past space programs have been very limited," said Dr. J. Milburn
Jessup, Professor of Surgery, University of Texas Heath Science
Center.  "The International Space Station will offer scientists a
lab that could provide an opportunity to study and gain better
understanding of bone and muscle loss, balance disorders, and cell
and tissue reproduction," he said.

     Jessup was one of five researchers participating in the first
in a series of International Space Station media forums NASA will
hold as the Agency and its international partners move into high
gear for construction and research on the infant space platform.
The forum was held hours prior to the successful docking of
Russia's Zvezda module.


Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dwayne Brown/Renee
Juhans (Phone:  202/358-1726/1712)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-115.txt

A video of the press conference will be available on the Web
shortly from this location:
http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/webcasts.html



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NASA NAMES ASTRONAUT CANDIDATE CLASS OF 2000

     Seventeen men and women have been selected for the astronaut
candidate class of 2000, scheduled to arrive at NASA's Johnson
Space Center, Houston, TX, in August to begin a period of training
and evaluation.

     This year's class consists of seven pilot and 10 mission
specialist candidates.  Of the 17 class members, 14 are male and
three are female.

Brief biographies of the new astronauts can be found at
http://www.nasa.gov/newsinfo/astro2000.pdf


Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dwayne
Brown/Kirsten Williams (Phone:  202/358-1726/358-0243)
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  Doug Peterson
(Phone:  281/244-8406)

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-116.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 26, 2000

    ITEM 1 - SERVICE MODULE DOCKING - JSC (REPLAY FROM TUESDAY
             EVENING)
    ITEM 2 - SERVICE MODULE B-ROLL PACKAGE (REPLAY PRE-FEED TO
             TUESDAY'S DOCKING)
    ITEM 3 - DEEP SPACE ONE UPDATE - JPL


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 26, Wednesday
- 6:00 - 9:00 a.m. - Service Module Docking Live News Interviews
  with Astronaut Bob Cabana - JSC
- *10:00 a.m. - International Space Station:  World Class Science
- KSC
- 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. - Summer Scholar Live News Interviews - MSFC

July 27, Thursday
- 4:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Deep Space 1 Update Live News Interviews
  - JPL


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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