From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 10/01/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:22:35 GMT

Daily                 News
Thursday, October 1, 1992  24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788

 % STS-52 launch countdown dress rehearsal underway in Florida;
 % Flight Readiness Review for 52 mission set for next Tuesday, Oct. 6;
 % Goddard selects Hughes for Earth Observing System data management;
 % Flight team and astronauts to hold STS-53 background briefings next week.
 % Administrator Goldin kicks off October Quality Month,

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The STS-52 flight crew arrived yesterday at Kennedy Space Center to
participate with their launch and mission control colleagues from KSC
and Johnson Space Center in the dress rehearsal for Columbia's upcoming
mid-October launch of the nine-day science and engineering mission.
The simulation concludes tomorrow at 11:00 am EDT.  Technicians working
on Columbia, at Launch Pad 39-B, have removed shuttle main engine #3
from the vehicle's aft engine compartment, a replacement engine will be
installed during the remainder of this week.  The space flight
management Flight Readiness Review for the STS-52 mission will be held
at KSC next Tuesday, Oct. 6.  Following the conclusion of that review,
a formal launch target date for the STS-52 mission will be announced.

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Goddard Space Flight Center has selected Hughes Information Technology
Co., Seabrook, Maryland, for negotiations leading to the award of a
cost-plus-award- fee contract to design, develop, test and integrate,
maintain and operate the Earth Observing System Data and Information
System Core System.  This will be a geographically distributed data
system which will support Earth Observing System operations.  It will
be used to support the acquisition, processing, archiving and
distribution of EOS data and appropriate non-EOS data such as those
from Earth Probes

Hughes' proposed cost and fee is $685 million.  NASA expects to
conclude negotiations with Hughes and award the contract in January
1993, with performance of the contract extending through 2003.  The
work would be performed at the Goddard center.

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NASA kicked off the October Quality Month this morning with opening
remarks from Administrator Daniel Goldin, followed by a presentation of
the National Quality Forum.  Both Goldin's remarks and the multiple
speakers from the Quality Forum will be replayed on NASA Select
television at 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm later today.  Goldin noted in his
remarks he will be going to Seattle to meet with Boeing Co. officials
to discuss mutual concerns about America's future aeronautics
programs.  Goldin will then leave early next week for Moscow where he
said he hopes to move forward on several significant agreements with
the Russian space agency.

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Background briefings for the STS-53 Department of Defense mission, now
set for a November launch, will be held next Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the
Johnson Space Center.  The briefings will be covered live on NASA
Select television.  Mission lead flight director Rob Kelso will provide
a mission overview.  Kelso's remarks will be followed by briefings on
the DOD primary and NASA secondary payloads.  The five-member shuttle
crew will brief on their mission assignments following the payload
briefings.  Mission commander is David Walker, shuttle pilot is Robert
Cabana, and mission specialists for the four-day flight are Guion
Bluford, Michael Clifford and James Voss.

  
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.

Thursday, October 1, 1992
Live   9:50 am  NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin 
               introduces Quality Forum VIII and October Quality Month.
Live  10:00 am  Quality Forum VIII P Welcome by James 
               Hayes, Publisher, Fortune Magazine.
Live  10:05 am  Quality Forum VIII P Keynote Address: 
               "Leadership, Innovation, and Discovery," by Edwin Artzt, 
               CEO, Proctor & Gamble.
Live  10:20 am  Qualify Forum VIII P Value: The Customer's 
               Bottom Line by David Glass, CEO, Wal-Mart Stores.
Live  10:36 am  Qualify Forum VIII P Listening to Quality 
               by Seiya Matsumoto, President, Pioneer Electronics.
Live  10:52 am  Qualify Forum VIII P Results of Gallup 
               Survey by Charles Aubrey, President, ASQC.
Live  11:03 am  Qualify Forum VIII P Getting Results: 
               Management Practices that Work by Ray Groves, Chairman, 
               Ernst & Young.
Live  11:29 am  Qualify Forum VIII P Executive Response: 
               Panel Discussion with Hellene Runtagh, President GE 
               Information Services, Keith Hasty, President, B.F.F. 
               Industries, and Geoffrey Colvin, member of the Board of 
               Editors, Fortune Magazine.
Live  12:03 pm  Qualify Forum VIII P Beyond Spelling it 
               Right by Donna Shalala, Chancellor of University of 
               Wisconsin-Madison.
Live  12:19 pm  Qualify Forum VIII P The Journey Continues 
               by Robert Shafto, President, The New England.
Live  12:30 pm  Qualify Forum VIII P Quality: Creating Our 
               Future by David McCamus, Chairman, Xerox Canada. 
Live  12:41 pm  Qualify Forum VIII P Moments of Truth 
               Revisited by Jan Carlzon, CEO of SAS Airlines.
Live   1:00 pm  PBS "Space Age" Educational Special from 
               Johnson Space Center with Sally Ride.
       2:00 pm  Starfinder program #19.
       2:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
       2:30 pm  Adapting to Space.
       3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #38 
               (University of New Mexico series).
       4:00 pm  8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight P NASA 
               programming repeats.
Friday, October 2, 1992
Live  12:00 pm  NASA Today news program
      12:15 pm  Adventures in Research.
      12:30 pm  Regenerative Processes.
       1:00 pm  Flight of Apollo 8.
       1:30 pm  Progress in Aeronautics.
       2:00 pm  Starfinder program #20.
       2:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
       2:30 pm  Skylab P First 40 Days.
       3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #39 
               (University of New Mexico series).
       4:00 pm  8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight P NASA Today 
               and subsequent programming repeat.
  
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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