NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Sept. 6, 2000
Media Advisory m00-174


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

  NASA TECHNOLOGY COULD SAVE VANISHING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR SEPT. 6, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


NASA TECHNOLOGY COULD SAVE VANISHING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES

The most up-to-the-minute language-instruction technology,
used in the space program, may come to the rescue of some
venerable old languages and cultures.

Native American educators are looking at technology from NASA's
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, in their efforts to preserve
and teach their peoples' languages. Johnson's Language Education
Center, one of the largest and most advanced of its kind, teaches
astronauts, Russian cosmonauts and others English, Russian and
Japanese.

Vernon Finley and Johnny Arlee, language instructors at Salish
Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation at Pablo, in
northwestern Montana, recently visited the language center.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Sonja Alexander
(Phone:  202/358-1761)
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  John Ira Petty
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-135.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 Sept. 6, 2000


NOTE: TODAY'S  VIDEOFILE WILL RUN APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 hours

ITEM 1 - EFFORT TO REMEDY TEACHER SHORTAGE LAUNCHED IN SILICON
         VALLEY - ARC
ITEM 2 - NASA TECHNOLOGY MAY HELP PRESERVE ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN
         LANGUAGES - JSC
ITEM 3 - LARGER SLOWER SPEED TENNIS BALL TESTED AT NASA AMES -
         ARC
ITEM 4 - ULYSSES SPACECRAFT STUDIES THE SUN'S SOUTH POLAR CAP -
         JPL
ITEM 5 - STS-106 ASTRONAUT CREW INTERVIEWS - JSC (REPLAY)
         COMMANDER WILCUTT - TRT 6:42
         PILOT ALTMAN - TRT 7:21
         MS 1 LU - TRT 5:50
         MS 2 MASTRACCHIO - TRT 6:42
         MS 3 BURBANK - TRT 7:31
         MS 4 MALENCHENKO - TRT 9:11
         MS 5 MORUKOV - TRT 9:57



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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


September 6, Wednesday
- 4:00 p.m. - STS-106 Launch Readiness News Briefing - KSC

September 7, Thursday
- 5:00 - 8:45 a.m. - TRMM Hurricane Prediction Live News
Interviews - GSFC
- (9:15 - 11:00 a.m. - TRMM Hurricane Prediction Live News
Interviews - TBD commercial satellite)
- 9:00 a.m. - STS-106 L-1 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC

September 8, Friday
- 8:45 a.m. - STS-106 Launch - KSC


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.

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Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

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continue to be posted at:
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For general information about NASA TV see:
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