From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 11/03/92 (Forwarded)
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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 07:06:02 GMT

Daily                 News
Tuesday, November 3, 1992  24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788

 % KSC technicians prepare Discovery for move to Launch Pad 39-A;
 % NASA begins 4-part Native American Celebration today;
 % Scout rocket to launch DOD payload from Vandenberg;
 % Marshall education activities continue to draw national interest.

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Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center are today in the process of
mating the Discovery to its external tank and solid rocket boosters in
the Vehicle Assembly Building for its upcoming STS-53 Department of
Defense mission.  The electrical connections between the orbiter and
the other elements of its launch stack will be attached tomorrow with
the shuttle interface test set to begin on Thursday.  The STS-53 stack
is presently set for roll out to Launch Pad 39-A on Sunday, November 8,
at just past midnight.  The terminal countdown demonstration test, the
full-up dress rehearsal for launch, is scheduled for next Thursday and
Friday, Nov. 12 and 13.  The mission is scheduled as a four-day flight
to deploy a DOD payload.  The mission commander is David Walker and
mission pilot is Robert Cabana.  Guy Bluford, Michael Clifford and
James Voss are mission specialists for the flight.

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NASA begins a four-part program today at 1:00 pm EST in the
Headquarters auditorium to celebrate 1992 as the Year of the American
Indian (and the Year of Reconciliation Between American Indians and
Non-Indians).  Today's program features a talk by Norbert Hill, a
Mohawk and the executive director of the American Indian Science and
Engineering Society, and the presentation of Native American dances and
drumming.  Native American food will be available for tasting and
Native American artifacts will be on display in the auditorium.  The
program will be taped for playback tomorrow at 11:00 am EST on NASA
Select television.

The Native American Indian celebration will continue with programs on
each of the Tuesdays in November.  All of the programs will be taped on
Tuesday and replayed on NASA Select on Wednesday.

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A NASA Scout rocket will be used to launch the Department of Defense's
Miniature Seeker Technology Integration payload from Vandenberg Air
Force Base no earlier than Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8:42 am EST.  The
launch had been scheduled for last week but was postponed when one of
the engines on a range and instrumentation aircraft was found to have a
problem.  The window for the launch lasts one hour until 9:42 am EST.
The launch will be covered live on NASA Select television.

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Marshall Space Flight Center education specialists report their LASER
Discovery Lab van visited six schools this past month, giving 22
presentations to nearly 500 students.  The center also reports that
representatives of Western Illinois University have expressed interest
in adding Spacelink to the university's electronic classroom technology
training center as part of its education curricula.  Spacelink is the
Marshall center's electronically-accessed space and aeronautics
education data base and routinely logs more than a dozen-thousand
callers even during non-school months.


  
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.

Tuesday, November 3, 1992
Live  12:00 pm  NASA Today news program featuring a report 
                on a new NASA program to put payloads into space - the 
                Commercial Experiment Transporter, or COMET; a report on 
                upcoming Town Meetings which NASA will hold in a series 
                of cities throughout the country; a look at Langley 
                Research Center's 75th anniversary open house; a look at 
                the grand opening of the Johnson Space Center's new 
                "experience center" Space Center Houston; and a look back 
                at this date in NASA history.
      12:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
      12:30 pm  The Making of Astro.
       1:00 pm  Journey through the Solar System.
       1:30 pm  Reach for Tomorrow.
       2:00 pm  Starfinder program #1.
       2:15 pm  Mars and Beyond.
       2:30 pm  Life in the Universe.
       3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #61 from 
                  the University of New Mexico series.
       4:00 pm  8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight - 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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