NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Nov. 20, 2000

Media Advisory m00-217

SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

ENDEAVOUR READY TO HELP INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

SPREAD ITS WINGS

VIDEO **ALL TIMES EASTERN***

VIDEO FILE FOR NOV. 20, 2000

UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS

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ENDEAVOUR READY TO HELP INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

SPREAD ITS WINGS

Space Shuttle Endeavour and its five-member crew are set to

soar into orbit on a mission of space-flight firsts, including the
task of adding a pair of giant solar wings to the International
Space Station (ISS). The launch of the shuttle is set for
Thursday, Nov. 30. Endeavour's liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space
Center, FL, on mission STS-97 is targeted for 10:06 p.m. EST, in a
launch window that will be less than five minutes long.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Kirsten Larson

(Phone: 202/358-0243)
Contact at NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL: Bruce Buckingham
(Phone: 321/867-2468)
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, TX: James Hartsfield
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-182.txt

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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-mail

summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

************ VIDEO FILE ************

VIDEO FILE FOR Nov. 20, 2000

Item 1 - Hale Crater- JPL

Item 2 - EO 1/SAC C Pre-launch package (replay) - GSFC

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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA

VIDEO
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.
**** Note **** During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television
schedule can be found at the following web address:
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html

************ UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ************

Upcoming Television Events:

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html

During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television schedule can be

found at the following web address:
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html

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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees

West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0
megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,

Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/
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