From: Grover.Partee@f58.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Grover Partee)
Newsgroups: k12.ed.science
Subject: Mars
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 10:10:01 PST
Organization: FidoNet node 1:343/58 - Silver Lake, Everett WA

JA>Hi All.....
        Hi, James!

JA>        My students in grade six science are looking for all the information
JA>they can get about the planet Mars.  They are working on a project to invent
JA>an alien and would like to research all aspects of Mars so that they can
JA>"create" a creature to live there.
        Here's an excerpt from the NASA Daily News for 09/23/92
[BEGIN]
Daily                News
Wednesday, September 23, 1992  24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788

 % Mars Observer briefing set for 11:00 am tomorrow, launch set for Friday at
   12:27 pm;
 % STS-52 mission background and flight crew briefings to begin at 9:00 am
   tomorrow;
....

NASA will launch the Mars Observer aboard a Titan 3/Transfer Orbit
Stage Friday, September 25.  The two-hour launch window opens at 12:27
pm EDT.  A briefing on the mission, its science and the launch
preparations will be held tomorrow, Sept. 24, at 11:00 am EDT at the
Kennedy Space Center.  The briefing will be carried live on NASA Select
television.  NASA Select television coverage of the launch will begin
on Friday at 11:00 am EDT.  A post-launch press conference is expected
to occur about 2:30 pm EDT.  Mars Observer will take eleven months to
get to the Red Planet, arriving there in August, 1993.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

In addition to the Mars Observer briefing, NASA will hold a series of
background briefings on the STS-52 mission and its science objectives
tomorrow, beginning at 9:00 am EDT.  The briefings will originate from
the Marshall Space Flight and Johnson Space Centers and will be carried
live on NASA Select television.  Columbia and its STS-52 solid rocket
booster and external tank are now mated and awaiting rollout to Launch
Pad 39-B just past midnight this Friday.  The Terminal Countdown
Demonstration Test for the nine-day science and engineering mission is
scheduled for October 1 and 2.  The space flight management Flight
Readiness Review for the mission will be held at Kennedy on Oct. 6.
The mission currently is targeted for a mid-October launch.  A firm
launch target date will be issued following the flight readiness
review.
.....

This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through Friday.  It is a
service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs.  The editor is Charles
Redmond, 202/453-8425 or CREDMOND on NASAmail.  NASA Select TV is
carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West
Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
[END]

        These come to me from usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov via email.
Some deal with Mars and some don't.  If you have at least email access
to Internet, you should be able to get them.

JA>        Also, does anyone know the number to the NASA SpaceLink BBS?
        Darn!  I had a Daily News from NASA with a long passage in
regard to Spacelink, but I just emptied my "wastebasket" so I don't
have it anymore.  I'll keep an eye open and try to crosspost the next
message I get regarding it.

TO ALL: I get 4-6 messages per day, depending on what is going on at
KSC (Kennedy Space Center) and elsewhere.  I get the NASA Daily News
direct from NASA plus Mission Status Reports (often several each day)
if an orbiter is aloft.  I also get regular (daily or almost so)
reports on Magellan, Gallileo, TOPEX and other spacecraft and daily
reports on the sun.  I was "subscribed" to all this info by a nice
fellow at JPL, but he forgot to tell me what the names of the "lists"
were!  I am trying to get that sorted out and will post what I can
here so that any of you who have access and are interested can
subscribe.  (If the information is already available, please let me
know.  I'm kind of new here and I don't want to be re-doing something
someone else has already done - probably better!  Thanks.)


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