From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
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Subject: NASA Headline News for 04/15/92 (Forwarded)
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:23:19 GMT
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[Today is tax day.  Keep those returns coming in and support your space
program!  :-)  -PEY]

             Headline News
Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters

  Wednesday, April 15, 1992     Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788

This is NASA Headline News for Wednesday, April 15, 1992 . . .

The launch pad technicians at Kennedy Space Center are right 
on schedule in the final closeout preparations for Endeavour's 
maiden flight.   One engine has been removed and its replacement 
installed.  The second engine was removed yesterday and its 
replacement is being installed today.  The third engine will be removed 
tomorrow and its replacement installed while the Terminal 
Countdown Demonstration Test is occurring this Friday, April 
17.  The seven-member astronaut flight crew arrived from Houston 
last night.  Because of the concurrent nature of the countdown test and 
the work, the main engine electrical circuits will be tested at a 
subsequent date.  All of the payloads have been installed inside 
Endeavour's payload bay and bay closeout is underway.  The shuttle 
management's Flight Readiness Review is set to take place at 
Kennedy on Wednesday, April 22.  A formal launch target date will 
be established at the FRR, however, the work schedule continues to 
support a launch during the first week of May.

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

Next Monday, April 20, the Federal government's long-heralded FTS-
2000 begins to affect the lifes of all U.S. government employees.  This 
coming Monday all FTS telephone numbers become the same as their 
commercial equivalents.  Not only that, but all users will also have to 
use a complete 10-digit dialing sequence.  As an example, the 
Public Affairs office at Johnson Space Center currently is FTS 525-
5111.  On Monday, that number will become 713/483-5111 for all users, 
FTS and commercial alike.  Realizing that no change of this magnitude 
occurs smoothly, the General Services Administration, which operates 
the FTS system, has created a grace period of, as yet, undetermined 
length.  The principal area to be concerned with, according to the GSA, 
is the conversion of numbers used in automatic processes, such as 
telefax machine auto-dial sequences or computer telecommunications 
auto-logon sequences.  Of course, this makes all current phone books 
listing U.S. government FTS numbers obsolete as well.

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

The Marshall Space Flight Center has announced that the fifth 
biennial conference on Advanced Earth-to-Orbit Propulsion 
Technology will be held at the center on May 19 through 21.  
The conference is held every two years for the purpose of keeping the 
propulsion technology community informed of recent results from 
government, university and industrial laboratories.  The conference is 
sponsored by Marshall, which has collaborated with the Lewis 
Research Center since 1981 in this advanced propulsion technology 
program.  About 150 technical papers are expected to be 
presented at one or more of the 17 scheduled sessions during 
the three-day conference.

        
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.    
indicates a program is transmitted live.

Wednesday, April 15, 1992
	12:00 pm NASA Today news program, today featuring a 
		 review of the Galileo flyby of Earth results; a close-up
		 look at a high-technology robotics process; and a first look
		 at a new form of solar power.
        12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
        12:30 pm Flying Machines.
         1:00 pm Apollo 11: For All Mankind..
         1:30 pm STARPHAC - Space Technology and Medicine.
         2:00 pm NASA/Oklahoma State University Educational Program.
         3:00 pm Total Quality Management #58 (Univ. of New Mexico series).
         4:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
         8:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
        12:00 am NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
Thursday, April 16, 1992
        12:00 pm NASA Today news program.
        12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
        12:30 pm Age of Space Transportation.
         1:00 pm Apollo 14: Mountains of Fra Mauro.
         1:30 pm Life Sciences at the Manned Spacecraft Center.
         2:00 pm Starfinder program #3.
         2:15 pm The Flood Below.
         2:30 pm Journey through the Solar System -- Venus.
         3:00 pm Total Quality Management #59 (Univ. of New Mexico series).
         4:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
         8:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
        12:00 am NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
Friday, April 17, 1992
        12:00 pm NASA Today news program.
        12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report.
        12:30 pm Quiet, Fast and Safe Aircraft.
         1:00 pm Apollo 15: Mountains of the Moon.
         1:30 pm Operations in Space.
         2:00 pm Launch Box program #2.
         2:15 pm Launch Box program #2.
         2:30 pm Journey through the Solar System -- Earth.
         3:00 pm Total Quality Management #60 (Univ. of New Mexico series).
         4:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
         8:00 pm NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.
        12:00 am NASA Today and subsequent programming repeats.

        
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.
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