NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: September 23, 1998

Media Advisory 98-35

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

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NASA Video File for Sept. 23, 1998

Upcoming Live Events

Undersea Challenge Mission, Sept. 23-30
Space Station Module Transfer Ceremony, Sept. 25
Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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No press releases have been issued today. 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 23, 1998

ITEM 1: SOFTWARE MAY IMPROVE SPACECRAFT DOCKING

Docking one spacecraft with another may become easier thanks to smart computer
software
being developed at NASA. The neural net software will "learn" the motion behavior
of a
spacecraft as it flies so it will not undershoot or overshoot docking targets.
Contact at Ames Research Center: John Bluck 605/604-5026.

ITEM 2: DEEP SPACE 1 READY TO LAUNCH

Contact at Jet Propulsion Laboratory: John Watson 818/354-5011.
Contact at Headquarters: Doug Isbell 202/358-1753.

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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

LEONARDO MPLM TRANSFER CEREMONY AT KSC SEP. 25

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and the President of the Italian Space
Agency,
Sergio De Julio, will meet at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, FL, on Friday, Sept.
25 for
a ceremonial event transferring the "Leonardo" Multipurpose Logistics Module
(MPLM)
from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to NASA.

Contact: Debra Rahn, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 202/358-1638;

George Diller or Lisa Malone, NASA Kennedy Space Center, 407/867-2468.

Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-059.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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