NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: September 24, 1998

Media Advisory 98-36

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

Leonardo MPLM Transfer Ceremony Postponed

NASA History Wins Prestigious Prize

NASA Video File for Sept. 24, 1998

Upcoming Live Events:

Undersea Challenge Mission, Sept. 23-30
Space Science Update: Gamma Rays Striking Earth, Sept. 29
Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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LEONARDO MPLM TRANSFER CEREMONY POSTPONED

The ceremony transferring the "Leonardo" Multipurpose

Logistics Module (MPLM) from the Italian Space Agency (ASI)
to NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, FL on September 25,
1998, has been postponed due to adverse weather forecast for
the central Florida area from Hurricane Georges. A new date
for the ceremony has not yet been set. Contact: Debra Rahn, NASA Headquarters
(Phone: 202/358-1638); George Diller/Lisa Malone, Kennedy Space Center, FL,
(Phone: 407/867-2468)

NASA HISTORY WINS PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has

selected "Walking to Olympus: An EVA Chronology," written by
David S. Portree and Robert C. Trevino and published by NASA,
as the winner of the 1998 Luigi Napolitano Book Award. Contact: Ray Castillo,
NASA HQ (Phone: 202/358-4555)

If any are issued later, summaries and Internet

URLs will be e-mailed to this list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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Video File for September 24, 1998

ITEM 1: HURRICANE GEORGES - GOES 8 IMAGE

Satellite images of Hurricane Georges taken by NOAA's GOES 8 satellite on
9/21/98-24/98.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Alan Kenitzer 301/286-2806; contact at
Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

ITEM 2: HURRICANE GEORGES - SEAWIFS IMAGE

New image of Hurricane Georges from NASA's SeaWiFS satellite at 1:30 p.m.
EDT on September 24.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Alan Kenitzer 301/286-2806; contact at
Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

ITEM 3: HURRICANE GEORGES - 3-D TRMM ANIMATION

This video sequence of Hurricane Georges as it approaches the Florida coast-line
was taken on September 23 by the TRMM spacecraft.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Alan Kenitzer 301/286-2806; contact at
Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

ITEM 4: SOFTWARE MAY IMPROVE SPACECRAFT DOCKING

Contact at Ames Research Center: John Bluck 605/604-5026.

ITEM 5: Portrait of the Earth (replay)

Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Wade Sisler 301/286-6256; contact at
Headquarters: Dave Steitz 202/358-1730.

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The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found at:

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Upcoming Live Events

GOING "ALL OUT" UNDER WATER

 NASA's Life Sciences Division is sponsoring the Challenge Mission, an eight-
day
deployment of the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station on the sea floor off Key
Largo,
Sep. 23-30.

Contact: Jennifer McCarter, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 202/358-1639.

Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-056.txt

RECENT WAVE OF STELLAR RADIATION TO BE DISCUSSED

The next Space Science Update, scheduled for 2 p.m.

EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 29, will feature discussion of an intense
wave of gamma rays that struck Earth's atmosphere on August
27, 1998, from a mysterious super-magnetic star 20,000 light
years away. Contact: Donald Savage NASA Headquarters (Phone: 202/358-1547);
Tim Tyson, Marshall Space Flight Center, (Phone: 256/544-0994)

Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-61.txt

CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

NASA will brief industry and the public-at-large on progress in meeting its
aeronautics goals at the first conference of this kind to be held Friday, Oct. 9, 1998,
at NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

Contacts: Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, 202/358-1979; Lori Rachul, NASA Lewis
Research Center, 216/433-8806.

For the full text of this Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-054.txt

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CONTRACT AWARDS
NASA contract awards are posted to:

http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html

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