NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Oct. 7, 1999

Media Advisory m99-208

Summary:

No NASA HQ news releases were issued today, Oct. 7, 1999

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If NASA issues news releases later today, we will e- mail summaries and Internet
URLs to this list.

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Video File for Oct. 7, 1999

Item 1 - Magnetic Levitation - Reliable Launch Technology

Item 2 - Hubble Heritage Marks One Year - STI

Item 3 - Hubble Uncovers Secrets of Galaxy Formation - STScI (replay)

Item 4 - 1999 Antarctic "Hole' Smaller Than Last Year - GSFC (replay)

Item 5 - Moon Over an Asteroid - HQ (replay)

Item 1 - Magnetic Levitation - Reliable Launch Technology TRT - 7:00

Synopsis: NASA engineers are developing new technology called the Magnetic
Levitation launch system that will be less expensive, safer and a more reliable
means of launching spacecraft. The launch system uses a roller-coaster-like
track that will catapult the vehicle at 600 mph before it lifts off into orbit.

Item 1a - MagLev Animation

Item 1b - MagLev b-roll

Footage shows MagLev track assembly and demonstration of the MagLev
technology.

Item 1c - Interview: Sherry Buschmann

Manager, Launch Technologies at MSFC

Item 1d - Interview: Bill Jacobs

MagLev Lead Engineer, MSFC

Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center, June Malone: 256/544-7061.

Item 2 - Hubble Heritage Marks One Year TRT: 1:00

Synopsis: The following four Hubble Space Telescope images are of nebulae
surrounding stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Two show interstellar gas and dust
around young stars, and two more show gas ejected from old stars nearing the end
of their lives.

(1) HH32-a Herbig-Haro object, formed when young stars eject jets of material
back into space. (2) PR99-36, Hubble's variable nebula, with a fan-shaped cloud
of gas and dust illuminated by a bright star. (3) NGC 2346, a planetary nebula,
ejected from Sun-like stars near the end of their lives. (4) NGC 2440, another
planetary nebula, but much more chaotic than (3). Its central star is one of the
hottest known.
This month marks the one year anniversary of the Hubble Heritage program,
designed to showcase the most beautiful photos taken by Hubble.

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Ray Villard: (410) 338-4514.

Contact at Headquarters, Don Savage: (202) 358-1727.

Item 3 - Hubble Uncovers Secrets of Galaxy Formation (replay)

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Ray Villard: (410) 338-4514.
Contact at Headquarters, Don Savage: (202) 358-1727.

Item 4 - 1999 Antarctic "Hole' Smaller Than Last Year (replay)

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Wade Sisler: (301) 286-6256.
Contact at Headquarters, Dave Steitz: (202) 358-1730.

Item 5 - Moon Over an Asteroid (replay)

Contact at Headquarters, Doug Isbell: (202) 358-1753.

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