From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 08/25/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 23:11:23 GMT

	Daily                News
Tuesday, August 25, 1992        24-hour audio service at 
202/755-1788

 % Endeavour Arrives at Launch Pad
 % Goldin to Address SAFISY Meeting
 % Maryland Firm Selected for Contract Negotiation
 
 
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Orbiter Endeavour (OV-105) began its journey to Launch Pad 39-B this
morning at 3:25 EDT and arrived at about 10:00 am.  Launch of Endeavour
and Spacelab J is targeted for the second week of September.

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NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin will address the fifth meeting of the
Space Agency Forum on the International Space Year (SAFISY), to be held
Aug. 28-29 at Loews L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.

The program of the meeting's August 28 opening session follows:
  9:00 am  Welcome:  Margaret G. Finarelli, NASA Associate Administrator for
               Policy Coordination and International Relations
  9:05 am  Keynote Address:  Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator
  9:30 am  Opening Remarks:  Ray Kammer, NOAA Deputy Undersecretary, Oceans and
               Atmosphere
  9:45 am  Opening Remarks:  Hubert Curien, French Minister for Research and
               Space
 10:00 am  Opening Remarks:  Kanzo Tanigawa, Japanese Minister of State for
               Science and Technology

These presentations will be taped and replayed on NASA Select on
Monday, August 31, at a time to be announced.

SAFISY is composed of 29 members (national and multi-national space
agencies) and 10 affiliate members (international, space-related
organizations).  Each agency will be represented at this final meeting
to review the progress of the various SAFISY-sponsored international
space year projects and discuss options for post- 1992 cooperation.

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Kennedy Space Center has selected I-NET, Inc., of Bethesda for
negotiation of a contract to provide engineering support services to
the center's Engineering Development Directorate.  The period of
contract performance is 5 years, beginning Oct.  1, 1992, and has an
estimated value in excess of $100 million.  The contract was competed
nationally as a small, disadvantaged business set-aside.


Under the terms of the contract to be negotiated, I-Net, Inc., will
provide a broad base of engineering services which may range in scope
from technical manpower in support of a variety of government
laboratories to engineering and management of complex applied research
and technology projects.  This includes engineering studies and
investigation; conceptual, preliminary, detail and development
engineering; and documentation support and maintenance.

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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.  Live indicates a program is transmitted
live.

Tuesday, August 25, 1992
   12:00 pm NASA Aquanauts
   12:15 pm Aeronautics & Space Report
   12:30 pm Designing With Plaid
    1:00 pm Apollo 16 - Nothing So Hidden
    1:30 pm Life in the Universe #2 - Biosatellite Program
    2:00 pm Space Basics
    2:20pm  Sail on Voyager
    3:00 pm TQM #27 (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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