From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 04/10/92 (Forwarded)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:23:55 GMT

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

  Friday, April 10, 1992  Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788

This is NASA Headline News for Friday, April 10, 1992 . . .

The seven-member  crew of the recently-completed STS-45 
shuttle flight will brief the media on their Atmospheric 
Laboratory for Application and Science mission next Monday, 
April 13, at 3:30 pm EDT.  The crew will show Earth observations 
photographs taken during the mission and will narrate video and 
motion picture sequences of the various views of the Earth.  This 
mission flew at a high inclination to the Equator which allowed 
extended photographic coverage of the Earth.  The mission also 
featured artificial aurora experiments.  The crew will report on their 
assessment of Earth resources, as some crewmembers had flown before 
and noted some degradation in the general appearance of the 
atmosphere, and will also provide a review of their plasma physics 
experiments including their creation of artificial aurora.  The briefing 
will be carried live on NASA Select television.

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Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center are working simultaneously 
to install payloads into Endeavour's payload bay and prepare the 
orbiter's aft compartment for the removal and replacement of the three 
shuttle main engines.  The Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test 
with the STS-49 flight crew and the Kennedy and Johnson Space 
Center launch and mission control teams is scheduled for April 17, 
next Friday.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory flight controllers are still 
investigating the cause of an anomaly in the backup telemetry 
subsystem aboard the Ulysses spacecraft.  The team continues to 
put Ulysses through a set of electronic checkout procedures to 
determine the overall status and health of all the onboard instruments 
and subsystems.  The controllers began testing the spacecraft's 
attitude and orbit control system yesterday.  Ulysses is heading 
downward from the plane of the Ecliptic and is now about 435 million 
miles from Earth.

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Kennedy Space Center payload operations managers report 
that preparations for the upcoming Mars Observer launch are 
continuing on a schedule which will support launch 
opportunities beginning the second week of September.  The 
Titan III vehicle is currently undergoing assembly in the Vehicle 
Integration Building.  The spacecraft is expected to arrive from 
General Electric's Astro-Space Division manufacturing site in early 
June.

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This evening at the National Space Club's Goddard Memorial Dinner, 
the Magellan mission will be awarded the Goddard Trophy for 
the mission's success in mapping Earth's twin planet with an 
unprecedented resolution and nearly complete coverage.
  
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.

Friday, April 10, 1992
   12:00 pm  NASA Today news program, today featuring a 
                report on work to make Endeavour ready for its early 
                May rescue of an Intelsat communications spacecraft; 
                a report from Ames Research Center that suggests 
                the rings of Saturn may not be as old as previously 
                suspected; and a report on the continued successful 
                mapping of Venus being performed by the Magellan spacecraft.
   12:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
   12:30 pm  Progress in Aeronautics.
    1:00 pm  Apollo 8 - Go for Trans-Lunar Injection.
    1:30 pm  Eating and Sleeping in Space.
    2:00 pm  Launch Box program #1.
    2:30 pm  Life in the Universe.
    3:00 pm  Total Quality Management #55 (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.
Monday, April 13, 1992
    3:30 pm  STS-45 flight crew post-mission press conference from 
                Johnson Space Center.
  
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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