NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Sept. 7, 2000
Media Advisory m00-175


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  LARGEST-EVER OZONE HOLE OBSERVED OVER ANTARCTICA

  SHUTTLE LAUNCH BEGINS NEW ODYSSEY IN HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT;
  MOVING DAY FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

  CHANDRA CLINCHES CASE FOR "MISSING LINK" BLACK HOLE:
  SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE SEPT. 12



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR SEPT. 7, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


LARGEST-EVER OZONE HOLE OBSERVED OVER ANTARCTICA

A NASA spectrometer has detected an Antarctic ozone "hole" (what
scientists call an "ozone depletion area") that is three times
larger than the entire land mass of the United States * the
largest such area ever observed.

The "hole" expanded to a record size of approximately 11 million
square miles (28.3 million square kilometers) on Sept. 3, 2000.
The previous record was approximately 10.5 million square miles
(27.2 million square km) on Sept. 19, 1998.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz
(Phone: 202/358-1730)
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Lynn
Chandler (Phone: 301/614-5562)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-137.txt



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SHUTTLE LAUNCH BEGINS NEW ODYSSEY IN HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT;
MOVING DAY FOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

This week's launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis begins an odyssey
unique in the history of human space flight. If all goes as
planned, at 8:45 a.m. EDT Friday, Sept. 8, five American
astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts will soar into orbit and
begin preparations necessary to declare the International Space
Station -- the largest building in space -- open for business.

The mission includes a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk by Astronaut
Ed Lu and Cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko to a point 100 feet above the
Shuttle's cargo bay, the farthest any tethered spacewalker has
ever ventured.


Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne Brown/Bob
Jacobs (Phone 202/358-1600)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-136.txt



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CHANDRA CLINCHES CASE FOR "MISSING LINK" BLACK HOLE:
SPACE SCIENCE UPDATE SEPT. 12

Until now, scientists have observed only two types of black
holes -- some about the mass of stars and some with a mass a
million to a billion times the mass of a star. At 1 p.m. EDT
Sept. 12 in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters,
300 E St., SW, Washington, DC, a Space Science Update panel will
present evidence for a new type of black hole. The recent
evidence comes from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dolores Beasley
(Phone: 202/358-1753)
Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL:
Steve Roy (Phone: 256/544-6535)
Contact at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge,
MA: Dr. Wallace Tucker (Phone: 617/496-7998)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-041.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. 7, 2000


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

ITEM 1 - LIGHTNING PROTECTION SYSTEM -KSC
ITEM 2 - STS-106 ANIMATION, TRAINING AND B-ROLL - JSC
         (REPLAY)
ITEM 3 - STS-106 ASTRONAUT 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
ITEM 4 - TRMM HURRICANE PREDICTION - GSFC
ITEM 5 - HUBBLE HERITAGE IMAGE: SPIROGRAPH NEBULA - STSCI
ITEM 6 - NASA TECHNOLOGY MAY HELP PRESERVE ANCIENT NATIVE
         AMERICAN LANGUAGES - JSC



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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 7, Thursday
- 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. - STS-106 Pad Shot - KSC
- 11:00 p.m. - Midnight - STS-106 Pad Shot - KSC

September 8, Friday
- 3:30 a.m. - Live Coverage and Commentary for STS-106 Begins -
  KSC
- 8:45 a.m. - STS-106 Launch - KSC

September 12, Tuesday
- 1:00 p.m. - Chandra Space Science Update - HQ

September 13, Wednesday
- 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Health Benefits From Space Live News
  Interviews - JPL

September 14, Thursday
- 1:30 p.m. - STS-92 TCDT Pad Q & A (questions from Kennedy only)
  - KSC
- 5:00 - 7:15 p.m. - First Long Duration Science Experments on the
  ISS Live News Interviews -MSFC

September 15, Friday
- 5:00 - 7:15 p.m. - First Long Duration Science Experments on the
  ISS 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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continue to be posted at:
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For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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