NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: September 30, 1998

Media Advisory 98-40

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

NASA Turns 40 on Thursday

NASA Video File for Sept. 30, 1998

Upcoming Live Events:

Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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NASA TURNS 40 ON THURSDAY

On Thursday, October 1, at 2 p.m. EDT, Administrator Daniel Goldin will kick off
NASA's fortieth anniversary celebration with an address to all employees from the
NASA Headquarters auditorium. He will be joined by Susan Eisenhower, President
of Eisenhower Inc. and a visiting fellow at Harvard University. The program will
be carried live on NASA Television. Contact: Ray Castillo, NASA Headquarters
(Phone: 202/358-4555). Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-174.txt

If any more news releases are issued

later, summaries and Internet URLs will be e-mailed to this
list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

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

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Video File for September 30, 1998

ITEM 1: MAGNETAR ILLUMINATES EARTH (replay)

Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center: Tim Tyson 256/544-
0994; contact at Headquarters: Don Savage 202/358-1727.

ITEM 2: ATLANTIS RETURNS TO KSC (replay)

Contact at Kennedy Space Center: Joel Wells 407/867-2468.
ITEM 3: JOHN GLENN AND STS-95 CREW TRAINING (replay)
Contact at Johnson Space Center: Eileen Hawley 281/483-5111;
contact at Headquarters: Ray Castillo 202/358-4555.

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

Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray
Castillo, 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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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 Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

Contacts: Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, 202/358-1979; Lori

Rachul, NASA Lewis Research Center, 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

NASA contract awards are posted to:

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

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