Sue Mathis Richard

Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

(Phone: 202/453-8364) September 11, 1991

RELEASE: 91-146

PRESIDENT BUSH TO ADDRESS STUDENTS ON NASA SELECT TV

President Bush will join NASA Administrator Richard Truly

for a back-to-school special on NASA Select TV on Sept. 17 at 2
p.m. EDT.

"Launching the School Year with President Bush" is aimed at

the elementary grades. The 1-hour program will originate from
Washington, D.C., and La Porte, Texas. President Bush will speak
to students and teachers about America 2000 and the national
education goals, and third and fourth grade students gathered in
both locations will have the opportunity to ask the President
questions. They also will participate in a unique math and
science "lesson" led by Astronauts Charlie Bolden in Washington
and Tammy Jernigan in La Porte, Texas, as well as aerospace
education specialist Lisa McLeod.

McLeod, one of 35 teachers nicknamed "Spacemobilers", will

bring one of NASA's oldest and most popular education programs to
nationwide television for the first time. Astronauts Bolden and
Jernigan will narrate footage from their Shuttle missions,
bringing to life the aerospace lecture on living and working in
space.

Making up the audience at NASA Headquarters in Washington

will be 17 national winners of the NASA/National Science Teachers
Association's Space Science Student Involvement Program (SSIP).
As SSIP winners, they have created projects ranging from
proposals for experiments on Space Station Freedom to designs for
an outpost on the moon.

NASA Select, the television service of the National

Aeronautics and Space Administration, now offers educational and
informational programming in addition to complete mission
coverage and press events. The 2 p.m. EDT time slot is dedicated
to programming suitable for classroom use, specifically aimed at
inspiring young people to achieve in math and science.

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NASA Select is transmitted on SatCom F2R, transponder 13, C

Band, 72 degrees West longitude, frequency 3954.5 MHz, vertical
polarization, audio on 6.8 MHz.

"Launching the School Year with President Bush" also will be

broadcast live on local PBS stations throughout the country.

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