From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Daily News for 09/29/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 18:06:53 GMT

Daily                 News
Tuesday, September 29, 1992  24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788

 % Kennedy center technicians moving forwards on STS-52, 53 missions;
 % NASA senior manager Doug Broome dies, led Hubble telescope effort;
 % Marshall to support Honolulu Space Expo and Boston Star Trek exhibit. 

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Kennedy Space Center technicians continue their work on several
upcoming missions.  On Launch Pad 39-B, workers are preparing to remove
main engine #3 from the aft compartment of Columbia while payload
technicians work to install the STS-52 payloads into Columbia's payload
bay.  The Kennedy launch readiness review for the nine-day science and
engineering flight will be held tomorrow.  The six-member flight crew
will arrive tomorrow in anticipation of the Terminal Countdown
Demonstration Test, set to begin on Thursday, October 1, and conclude
with a simulated launch at 11:00 am EDT on Friday, Oct.  2.  The space
flight management Flight Readiness Review will be held next Tuesday,
Oct. 6.  The flight is currently targeted for a launch the third week
of October.

In the Vehicle Assembly Building, technicians working on the STS-53
solid rocket booster stack have mated the right forward center segment
to the right aft center segment and successfully leak-tested the field
joint.  This booster had failed a leak test last week, requiring a
destacking and installation of new O-rings.

And, on Saturday, Oct. 17, Atlantis will be ferried atop the Shuttle
Carrier Aircraft to Rockwell International's Palmdale, Calif., Space
Division plant for upgrades and modifications.

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Douglas Broome, Jr., deputy director of Solar System Exploration, died
of liver cancer this Sunday, Sept. 27.  He was 55.  Broome was
instrumental in the recent Mars Observer launch and had worked
previously to restructure the planetary flight programs toward a more
efficient and lower cost program.  Prior to his solar system job,
Broome had directed the Hubble Space Telescope program as manager of
the Astrophysics Division's Great Observatories Development Branch.
Broome began his NASA career in 1959 as an aerospace engineer at the
Langley Research Center where he worked on power systems for the
Mercury capsule.  He moved to Houston's then Manned Spacecraft Center
in the 1960s to work on the Apollo program.

In 1970, Broome received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his
skill and performance under pressure during the Apollo 13 mission.  He
moved to NASA Headquarters in 1974 and managed a number of programs
including Nimbus, SeaSat and the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
He received the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership in 1979 for the
Earth resources programs and again in 1990 for his management of the
Hubble program.  He is survived by his wife, four sons, three
grandchildren and a brother.

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Marshall Space Flight Center education officials report they held a
Community Involvement Program at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah,
last week where 160 teachers from across the state participated.  The
center also reports they are featuring Mission to Planet Earth at their
exhibit at the Pueblo, Colo. ,State Fair.  The center will also support
the Hawaii Space Expo 92 exhibition in Honolulu, an international event
which will run through December.  Marshall will also have exhibits on
the Hubble telescope, space station Freedom and the shuttle at a
complimentary exhibit to coincide with the Boston Museum of Science's
premiere of a Star Trek exhibition.

  
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, September 29, 1992
Live   10:00 am  STS-47 crew post-flight briefing from Johnson Space Center.
Live   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program, today featuring a report on the
                 upcoming STS-52 mission; an update on the TOPEX/Poseidon
		 mission; a look at arecent test firing of a possible new solid
		 rocket nozzle; a report on a successful student sounding
		 rocket launch; a look forward to that point this winter when
		 the Pioneer Venus will decay out of its Venus orbit and burn
		 up in Venus' thick atmosphere; and a complimentary look at 
                 recent discoveries about Venus from the Magellan spacecraft.
       12:15 pm  Pathway to the Stars.
       12:30 pm  Magnetic Effects in Space.
        1:00 pm  Safe Computing.
        1:30 pm  America's Wings.
        2:00 pm  Starfinder program #17.
        2:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
        2:30 pm  Four Days of Gemini.
        3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #36 
                  (University of New Mexico series).
        4:00 pm  8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight - NASA Today 
                  and subsequent programming repeat.
Wednesday, September 30, 1992
Live   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program.
       12:15 pm  Aerospace Oddities.
       12:30 pm  Gyroscope in Space.
        1:00 pm  Freedom 7.
        1:30 pm  Setting the Stage for the Future.
        2:00 pm  Starfinder program #18.
        2:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
        2:30 pm  Four Rooms with an Earth View.
        3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #37 
                  (University of New Mexico series).
        4:00 pm  8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight - NASA Today 
                  and subsequent programming repeat.
Thursday, October 1, 1992
Live   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program.
       12:15 pm  Flight without Wings.
       12:30 pm  Second Science Harvest.
        1:00 pm  Apollo 7.
        1:30 pm  Behind the Scenes at the Air & Space Museum.
        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 - NASA Today 
                  and subsequent programming repeat.
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 - 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 - 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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