NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: September 16, 1998

Media Advisory 98-30

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

-- Note to Editors: Deep Space 1 Prelaunch Technology

Briefing, Sept. 22
-- Note to Editors: NASA's Underwater Station Mission Serves
as Analog to Space Missions
-- Video File for Sept. 16
- Item 1: Future Astronauts Tour Langley
- Item 2: Underwater Archaeology Uses NASA Technology
- Item 3: Jupiter Rings Fed by Small Moons (Replay)
-- Live Television Interview Opportunity, Sept. 17
- New Pictures of Planet Earth
-- Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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DEEP SPACE 1 PRELAUNCH TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING SCHEDULED FOR
SEPT. 22

Representatives from NASA's Deep Space 1 mission team

will conduct a televised media briefing on the mission and
its goals on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 2 p.m. EDT. The briefing
will originate from NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, and
will be carried live on NASA TV. Deep Space 1 is now
officially scheduled for liftoff at 6:59:50 a.m. EST on Oct.
25, 1998,

Deep Space 1 is the first mission in NASA's New

Millennium Program, designed to test and validate new
technologies so that they can be used confidently on science
missions of the 21st century.

NASA HQ Contact: Douglas Isbell, 202/358-1547.

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, John
Watson, 818/354-5011.

Full text of this Note to Editors can be found at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-057.txt

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GOING "ALL OUT" UNDER WATER

NASA's Life Sciences Division is sponsoring the

Challenge Mission, an eight-day deployment of the Scott
Carpenter Space Analog Station on the sea floor off Key
Largo, Sept. 23-30. The station is a fully functioning,
submersible habitat that serves as a demonstration setting
for challenges to systems needed for human exploration of
space.

The list of official crew members includes former

astronaut Buzz Aldrin, movie producer James Cameron, actress
Kate Mulgrew, and Tom Whittaker, the first disabled person to
summit Mt. Everest. Invited individuals and representatives
of the Challenge Project museum and national organization
partners will be joined by Space Life Sciences experts in the
space analog station.

Headquarters Contact: Jennifer McCarter, 202/358-1639.

Full text of this note to editors can be found at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-056.txt

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An index of NASA News Releases can be found at:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

If any news releases are issued after this summary, adds to

this summary will be e-mailed to the list.

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Video File for September 16, 1998

ITEM 1: FUTURE ASTRONAUTS TOUR LANGLEY

Footage shows the 1998 astronaut candidate class as they
visit Langley Research Center, the oldest civilian
aeronautics laboratory in the United States. 21 men and 4
women comprise the 1998 class.
Contact at Johnson Space Center: Doug Peterson 281/483-5111.
ITEM 2: UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY USES NASA TECHNOLOGY
Using a submersible rover, researchers have discovered
what appears to be the outline of a wooden ship lost in
Arctic waters. The rover is equipped with a pair of stereo
video cameras to record underwater footage in 3-D. Software
developed for NASA's Mars Pathfinder is used to produce a
virtual reality simulation of the sea floor. The researchers
are looking for a whaling fleet lost beneath the Arctic
waters in 1871.
Contact at Ames Research Center: Mike Mewhinney 650-604-
3937.

ITEM 3: JUPITER RINGS FED BY SMALL MOONS (replay)

Contact at Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Jane Platt 818/354-
5011; contact at Headquarters: Doug Isbell 202/358-1753.

The NASA Video File airs at noon, 3, 6, 9 p.m. and midnight

Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray
Castillo (phone: 202/358-4555). 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. The most recent NASA Video File
Advisory can be found at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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LIVE TELEVISION INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY

NEW PICTURES OF PLANET EARTH

For the first time in history, NASA is releasing dramatic

images documenting the Earth's changing biology, both on land
and in the oceans for a continuous year, as observed from
space.

NASA Research Oceanographer Gene Feldman is available to

discuss the new images via NASA-TV Thursday, September 17th
from 6 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EDT. The interview comes to you
from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

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UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS

CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

NASA will brief industry and the public-at-large on

progress in meeting its aeronautics goals at the first
conference of this kind to be held Friday, Oct. 9, 1998, at
NASA's Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.
Contacts: Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, (Phone: 202/358-1979);
Lori Rachul, Lewis Research Center, (Phone: 216/433-8806).
For the full text of this Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-054.txt

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CONTRACT AWARDS

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http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html

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