From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 04/14/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 18:10:13 GMT

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

  Tuesday, April 14, 1992  Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788

This is NASA Headline News for Tuesday, April 14, 1992 . . .

Kennedy Space Center technicians have removed space shuttle main 
engine #1 from the engine compartment of Endeavour on launch pad 
39-B.  The replacement for this engine was being readied for 
installation yesterday afternoon.  The Terminal Countdown 
Demonstration Test will occur this Friday, April 17.  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, preparations are currently 
proceeding smoothly enough to support a launch during the first week 
of May.

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Goddard Space Flight Center flight controllers report that the Hubble 
Space Telescope is continuing to perform nominally and the 
scientific efficiency of the observatory is currently at 30 
percent and increasing.  The program office mission goal for 
scientific efficiency is 35 percent.  The two years of operational 
experience with the Hubble spacecraft is enabling the ground team to 
refine their procedures, thereby increasing the overall scientific 
efficiency.  The ground team has also analyzed a problem with 
the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph which had 
prevented the full use of that instrument for eight months.  The 
team has concluded that an intermittent open circuit in the 
instrument's electronics is temperature dependent.  This lead to the 
development of thermal control procedures which have beeb used since 
November to support GHRS science operations using one side of the 
electronics.  The fault analysis is continuing, though, to determine 
what additional steps can be taken to restore full operation to both 
sides of the electronics.

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Tomorrow, beginning at 2:30 pm EDT, NASA's Office of Human 
Resources and Education will present its fourth and last video 
education teleconference for this school year.  The topic for this 
final classroom teacher interactive series is Space Flight and the Space 
Station.  The program will feature Robert Bobola, the deputy manager 
of the Space Station Freedom develpment office at Johnson Space 
Center.  The interactive program will also feature phoned-in 
questions from participating teachers.  These 90-minute video 
conferences update teachers on the various NASA programs and 
demonstrate classroom aerospace activities for teachers.  The programs 
are transmitted to school systems on the Galaxy 6 spacecraft's 
Channel 5.

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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. 

Tuesday, April 14, 1992
   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program.
   12:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
   12:30 pm  Building to New Heights.
    1:00 pm  Apollo 10: Sorting the Unknown.
    1:30 pm  Medical Benefits from Space.
    2:00 pm  Starfinder program #2.
    2:15 pm  Shaping Tomorrow.
    2:30 pm  Journey through the Solar System - Mercury.
    3:00 pm  Total Quality Management #57 (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.
Wednesday, April 15, 1992
   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program.
   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.
  
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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