From: baalke@kelvin.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Ron Baalke)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 01/25/93 (Forwarded)
To: sci-space-news@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:53:00 GMT

[Note: I'm filling in for Peter Yee who is on travel this week. 
       Ron Baalke
]

NASA Daily News
Monday, January 25, 1993
Two Independence Square,
Washington, D.C.
Audio service: 202/358-3014

 % Kennedy staff continues preparation work on Columbia
               for STS-55.

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KSC technicians continue their processing activities on
Columbia, presently still in Orbiter Processing Facility
bay 2 where it is being outfitted with the Spacelab
module and tunnel for its dedicated German science
flightPD2 on the STS-55 mission.  The KSC team was
expecting to have completed the aft compartment closeouts
by this morning.  The astronaut crew equipment interface
test occurred this past weekend; the Spacelab interface
verification test previously had been successfully
completed.

The STS-55 mission is a dedicated German research flight,
as was the D-1 mission which flew on STS-61A in November
1985.  The flight is scheduled as an 8-day and 22-hour,
seven-crewmember mission with the Spacelab long module
and a variety of scientific discipline investigations.
This mission's major Spacelab facilities will continue
the exploration of fluid physics and human physiological
changes in microgravity.  Additional experiments will
continue the investigations of the Earth's atmosphere,
the surface topography of the planet, and additional
investigations in galactic astronomy and technology
development.

The mission will also feature the flight of two German
payload specialists and will provide both the U.S. and
German crewmembers with daily opportunities to
communicate with Earth-bound citizens in both countries
through the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment gear, which
is flying again on this mission.

Meanwhile, in OPF bay 3, technicians are continuing their
turn around processing on Discovery for its upcoming
STS-56 mission to fly ATLAS payload experiments again.
The STS-56 mission is presently targeted for a late March
launch.

Workers at KSC also are preparing to remove the Diffuse
X-ray Spectrometer from Endeavour as part of post-mission
operations on that orbiter.


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.

Monday, January 25, 1993
Live
12:00 pm
               NASA Today news program, today
               featuring a report on the latest measurements of the
               Antarctic Ozone Hole; a report on the science experiment
               flown on the last shuttle mission and how it might have
               answered a 30-year old astronomy mystery; a report from
               the 181st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
               and how that society is relying on NASA science; a report
               on what some believe may have been a UFO on the STS-48
               mission, but which a NASA engineer says emphatically is
               not; a report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on both
               the Ulysses and Magellan missions; and finally a report
               on a book which may give scientists a better
               understanding of how Congress works.

12:15 pm
Aeronautics & Space Report.

12:30 pm
Apollo 12 for Science.

1:00 pm
Sail On Voyager.

2:00 pm
Starfinder program #6.

2:30 pm
Project Laser.

3:00 pm
Total Quality Management program #29 from
               the University of New Mexico series.

at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
               schedule of the day 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, 202/358-3014 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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