From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 08/13/92 (Forwarded)
Apparently-To: sci-space-news@ames.arc.nasa.gov
Followup-To: sci.space
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:22:39 GMT

Thursday, August 13, 1992       24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788


 *  KSC Hosts Media Showing of Mars Observer/TOS
 *  GSFC Building-Addition Ribbon-Cutting Today
 *  NASA Day Tomorrow at APA


The Kennedy Space Center held a Mars Observer payload viewing for a
dozen media representatives this morning between 8:00am and 9:00am EDT
at KSC's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility (PHSF).  The event was
timed to occur shortly after all access platforms were removed from
around the spacecraft and immediately before the encapsulation
activities began.

Media participants were taken inside the high-bay clean room to view
and photograph the Mars Observer and associated Transfer Orbit Stage
(TOS) upper stage.  (Appropriate cleanliness and lighting precautions
were followed.)  Officials from the project offices at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) and
Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) were on hand to answer questions.

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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this
morning to mark the completion of the new Data Operations Facility
(DOF) addition to Building 28.

The building took just under two years to complete and is graced by a
number of aesthetic features including large corridor-length skylights,
a central atrium, and cost-efficient rooms with shared lighting and
ventilation systems.

The DOF is a two-story facility providing more than 50,000 square feet
(4645 square meters) of usable office space for approximately 250 NASA
and contractor scientists and support personnel.  Most of the addition
will house the new generation Flight Dynamics Facility computer complex
and associated software development areas.

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The NASA Space Human Factors Program will sponsor a group of
presentations for an exhibit entitled "NASA Day at the APA" from
10:00am to 2:30pm EDT tomorrow in the Garbo Room of the Omni Shoreham
Hotel.  The exhibit will be featured as part of the American
Psychological Association (APA) Centennial meeting being held in
Washington from August 14-18.

Principal investigators currently supported by the Space Human Factors
Program will be participating in the exhibit, which will include a wide
range of posters, video and audio presentations, and interactive
displays.  Dr. Joseph V. Brady, a principal investigator of long
standing with NASA and the Space Human Factors Program who is scheduled
to fly an experiment on the Spacelab Life Sciences  3 (SLS-3) mission,
will receive one of APA's highest honors for his involvement in basic
neuroanatomy and endocrinology research, as well as for his
contributions to the study of integrative behavior in simulated space
environments.

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Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select
TV.  Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that
all times listed are Eastern.  Live indicates a program is transmitted
live.

August 13, 1992

Live    noon                    NASA Today -News 
Taped   12:15 pm                Flight Without Wings
Taped   12:30 pm                Second Science Harvest
Taped    1:00 pm                Close Encounter of the Second Kind (BBC/Euro
                                Space Agency Program)
Taped    2:30 pm                Adapting to Space
Taped    3:00 pm                TQM Program from NASA HQ (Taped 7/31/92)
        
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service of NASA's Office of Public Affairs.  The editor is Charles
Redmond, 202/453-8425 or CREDMOND on NASAmail.  NASA Select TV is
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Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
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