(WUFOC NOTE: This even has already been, but maybe there will be repeated transmissions)
Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, DC October 23, 1996
(Phone: 202/358-1778)
Rob Navias
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
NOTE TO EDITORS: N96-69
BRIEFINGS SET FOR ORFEUS-SPAS, WAKE SHIELD MISSION
A series of briefings on the STS-80 mission will be held on
Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston,
TX, the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), FL, and the Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD. All the briefings will be
broadcast on NASA Television.
The seventh and final Shuttle flight of the year is
scheduled to be launched in early November aboard Columbia with
five astronauts aboard to deploy and retrieve a pair of science
satellites -- the ORFEUS-SPAS astronomy satellite, and the Wake
Shield Facility, making its third flight to grow thin film
semiconductor material in a nearly perfect vacuum in orbit.
In addition, astronauts Tammy Jernigan and Tom Jones will
conduct a pair of spacewalks during the planned 16-day mission
designed to fine-tune techniques which will be used in the
assembly of the International Space Station beginning in
December 1997.
The briefings will begin at 9 a.m. EST at JSC with an
overview of the mission by STS-80 Lead Flight Director Al
Pennington, followed at 10 a.m. EST with the ORFEUS-SPAS
briefing from KSC. At 11 a.m. EST the briefings return to JSC
for an overview on the Wake Shield Facility. The briefings
will resume at 1 p.m. EST with a briefing from JSC on the two
spacewalks which will be performed during the flight, followed
at 2:30 p.m. EST by the STS-80 crew news conference. At 4 p.m.
EST a briefing will be conducted at JSC on the National
Institutes of Health-R experiment. The briefings will conclude
at 4:30 p.m. EST with a briefing on the Space Experiment Module
from Goddard.
Individual round-robin interviews with the STS-80 astronauts
will be held after the crew news conference for reporters
attending the briefings at JSC and those who make special
arrangements to conduct interviews by phone. Reporters
interested in round-robin interviews with the STS-80 astronauts
should contact Eileen Hawley at 713/483-5111 by close of
business on October 28. The interviews will not be seen on
NASA TV.
The STS-80 briefings can be seen on NASA Television, which
is carried on Spacenet 2, Transponder 5, Channel 9 at 69
degrees West longitude, horizontal polarization, frequency 3880
Mhz, audio 6.8 Mhz.
STS-80 Briefings (all times are EST)
9 a.m. Mission Overview (JSC)
Al Pennington, STS-80 Lead Flight Director
10 a.m. ORFEUS-SPAS Overview (KSC)
Konrad Moritz, ORFEUS-SPAS Project Manager
Ron Polidan, ORFEUS-SPAS Project Scientist
11 a.m. Wake Shield Facility Overview (JSC)
Ed Gabris, Director, Space Development and
Commercial Research Division, NASA Headquarters
Dr. Alex Ignatiev, Director, Space Vacuum and Epitaxy Center,
University of Houston
1:00 p.m. EVA Overview (JSC)
Daryl Schuck, STS-80 Lead EVA Officer
Tim Brady, EVA Development Test Flight Hardware Manager
2:30 p.m. STS-80 Crew News Conference (JSC)
Ken Cockrell, Commander
Kent Rominger, Pilot
Tammy Jernigan, Mission Specialist 1
Tom Jones, Mission Specialist 2
Story Musgrave, Mission Specialist 3
4:00 p.m. NIH-R Experiment Overview (JSC)
David McCarron, Principal Investigator,
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland
4:30 p.m. Space Experiment Module Overview (GSFC)
Ruthan Lewis, SEM Mission Manager
-end-
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