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5/19/93: INDUSTRY TESTS NASA COMPUTER PROGRAM

Drucella Andersen
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
May

Ann Redelfs
Rice University, Houston

RELEASE:  93-90

        NASA and the nation's large aerospace companies are working together to
see how NASA computer programs can help industry design and produce aircraft
more efficiently.

        Member companies of the Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design
Industrial Consortium (MADIC) are working with NASA to complete a 1-year
evaluation of NASA computer simulation programs to find out how well they work
on real aircraft design problems.  The Center for Research on Parallel
Computation at Rice University, Houston, is coordinating research activities
and technical workshops under the project and is a major participant.

        The ultimate goal is to integrate all the factors involved in aircraft
design and production.  Aeronautical engineers traditionally decide on the
overall shape of an aircraft first, then separately design the plane's other
systems, such as propulsion, flight controls and cockpit displays.  Changes to
any of the systems during the design process, however, often can have an impact
on the other components.

        "With these design tools, industry will be able to design aircraft
systems simultaneously," said Lee Holcomb, NASA's Director for High Performance
Computing and Communications. "This project is a significant step in organizing
the institutions who have technologies that can make this multidisciplinary
design concept feasible."

         The project, which started in April, will evaluate 10-15 NASA
simulation programs, called "solvers", that approximate the physical phenomena
involved in aircraft design, such as the lifting power of wings and the weight
of components.  The study will develop criteria to assess these programs and
will come up with a plan to incorporate existing NASA solvers into
multidisciplinary design methods.

Testing NASA Software on Real Problems

        Two of the solvers will be selected for evaluation by a group of
industry researchers.  A key part of the project will develop the requirements
for using these programs on parallel processing computers, which use many
processors to work simultaneously on a problem.  The processors are simpler
than those in traditional supercomputers, but give a faster result because
there are many more of them.

        The industry researchers will evaluate the two programs on real design
problems to find out how well they agree in selected areas with known
solutions.  This is vital to integrating design and production factors because,
as inputs constantly change, their effect on the ultimate design must be
measured accurately.

        "Multidisciplinary analysis and design will represent an increasingly
important application for parallel computation and if it can be done
efficiently, it eventually could revolutionize the practice of engineering
design," said Ken Kennedy, Director of the Center for Research on Parallel
Computation at Rice.

        Project researchers from NASA, Rice University, Syracuse University,
Argonne National Laboratory and the MADIC consortium are taking part in the
effort.

        MADIC is a group of U.S. firms interested in developing pre-competitive
software for multidisciplinary design systems.  Members include General
Dynamics, General Electric, Grumman, Lockheed, McDonnell Douglas,
Rockwell-North American Aircraft, Vought and United Technologies.

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KSC SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT 5/19/93







        KENNEDY SPACE CENTER SPACE SHUTTLE STATUS REPORT
                     Wednesday, May 19, 1993

KSC Contact: Bruce Buckingham         407-867-2468 (fax [phone])
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Mission: STS-57/Spacehab/EURECA-Retrieval  Orbital Alt. 287 miles
Vehicle: Endeavour/OV-105                 Inclination: 28 degrees
Location: Pad 39-B                        Crew Size: 6
Target Launch Date/Window: June 3, 6:17 - 7:28 p.m.
Target KSC Landing Date/Time: June 11, 5:14 p.m.
Expected Mission Duration: 7 days/23 hours (if cryogenics allow)

IN WORK TODAY:
*  Continue analysis of flexible joints in main propulsion system
*  Auxiliary power unit leak checks
*  Main engine number 1 high pressure fuel pump leak checks
*  Open payload bay doors
*  Launch Readiness Review

WORK SCHEDULED:
*  Main engine number 1 heatshield installation
*  Helium signature test
*  Main engine number 1 flight control checks
*  Flight Readiness Review (Friday)
*  Begin aft compartment closeouts

WORK COMPLETED:
*  Hypergolic fuel and oxidizer loading operations

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Mission: STS-51/ACTS-TOS/ORFEUS-SPAS      Orbital Alt.: 184 miles
Vehicle: Discovery/OV-103                 Inclination: 28 degrees
Location: OPF bay 3                       Crew Size: 5
Mission Duration: 9 days/22 hours  Target Launch Period: mid-July

IN WORK TODAY:
*  Power reactant storage and distribution system tests
*  Begin inspection of flexible joints in main propulsion system
*  Ku-band antenna checks
*  Orbital maneuvering system functional tests
*  ACTS-TOS interface verification test
*  Main engine installation preparations
WORK SCHEDULED:
*  ORFEUS-SPAS end-to-end test (Friday)
*  Flight control checkouts
*  Forward reaction control system installation
WORK COMPLETED:
*  Auxiliary power unit leak and functional checks
*  ORFEUS-SPAS interface verification test
*  Waste containment system servicing
*  Drag chute installation

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Mission: STS-58/SLS-2              Orbital Altitude: 176 miles
Vehicle: Columbia/OV-102           Inclination: 39 degrees
Location: OPF bay 2                Crew Size: 7
Mission Duration: 14 days
Target launch period: Early September


IN WORK TODAY:
*  Preparations for hypergolic deservice
*  Electrical demates of Spacelab D-2

WORK SCHEDULED:
*  Hypergolic fuel purges
*  Removal of Spacelab D-2 module
*  SLS-2 mission sequence test (May 24-27)

WORK COMPLETED:
*  Gauss camera film removal
*  Waste tank removal
*  Orbiter power up operations
*  Hydraulic power-up and re-position elevons
*  Open payload bay doors
*  Payload bay doors latch and functional tests
*  Ferry kit removal
*  Tailcone removal





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5/19/93: LEWIS  CASE  BATTELLE TO COMMERCIALIZE NASA INVENTIONS

Charles Redmond
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
May

Marilyn Edwards
Lewis Research Center, Cleveland

RELEASE:  93-91


        NASA's Lewis Research Center, Case Western Reserve University and the
Battelle Memorial Institute, all of Cleveland, today announced the kick-off of
a new initiative to commercialize NASA inventions by using top graduate
students at Case Western to come up with new product ideas and strategies.

        Lewis Research Center Director Larry Ross said that "ensuring that NASA
innovations can be applied in the marketplace is a high priority at Lewis. We
believe this important new program will put some of the best young minds in the
area to work on finding new product ideas for the innovations of some of our
top scientists and engineers."

        The program is known as the Strategic Technology Evaluation Program
(STEP), a joint activity of Lewis, the Great Lakes Industrial Technology Center
(managed by the Battelle Memorial Institute), the Weatherhead School of
Management, the Center for the Management of Science and Technology and
Enterprise Development Inc., all units of Case Western Reserve University.

        "We are excited about this program," said Scott Cowen, Dean of the
Weatherhead School of Management. "We believe the Case Western Reserve graduate
students will bring a new perspective to commercializing these promising
federal government innovations."

        The new project is a precedent-establishing program in which a dozen
top graduate students at Case Western Reserve, chosen from diverse fields
including engineering, business, law and architecture, work as a team to
develop commercialization strategies for selected inventions developed at Lewis
over the past several years.

        During the next 8 weeks, the students will examine more than 90 NASA
patents and invention disclosures.  The inventions the students will be
examining primarily will be in the materials, electrical and electronic and
mechanical areas.

        "This kind of government-university-industry cooperation has been
critical to American economic competitiveness in the recent past," Douglas
Olesen, President and CEO of the Battelle Memorial Institute, said. "This
program is a clear example of the great potential of such cooperative activity.
I am particularly pleased by the high level of hands-on industrial involvement
in the program."

        The students will be guided by an industrial advisory group comprised
of leading industrialists, venture capitalists, patent attorneys and
commercialization experts from throughout Ohio.

        The students have been chosen on the basis of both their academic work
and work-related experience and will be supervised in their research by the
Weatherhead School of Management faculty.  Students will be paid for their work
and will be given the option of receiving academic credit as well.

        The following list comprises the preliminary membership of the
student's Industrial Advisory Group:

 Dr.  Jere Brophy, Vice President for Technology, Brush Wellman Corp.; Robert
Erdman, New Business Development Director for Keithley Instruments, Inc.;
William Grimberg, Cleveland Tomorrow Technology Leadership Council Director;
Dr. Cinda Herndon-King, Vice President of Technology and Education, Edison
BioTechnology Center; John Laskowski, Commercialization Manager for Cleveland
Advanced Manufacturing Program; Dr. Thomas Purcell, Vice President and
Corporate Director of Research, Ferro Corp.; Charles Rivenburgh, Director of
Technology Transfer, Edison Polymer Innovation Corp.; Raymond Rund, Partner,
Brantley Venture Partners; Bill Sanford, President and CEO, STERIS Corp.; and
Dr. Odo Struger, Vice President of Technology Development, Allen-Bradley - all
of Cleveland

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MARS OBSERVER STATUS 5/18/93

PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109

                  MARS OBSERVER MISSION STATUS
                          May 18, 1993

     The Mars Observer spacecraft was returned to normal cruise
mode at about 8:15 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Monday, May 17,
eight days after the spacecraft automatically switched to a self-
protective mode on Sunday, May 9.  While recovery from
contingency mode had been possible last week, the flight team
took the opportunity to more thoroughly analyze memory readouts
of the incident and develop a software fix that would improve the
spacecraft's attitude reference performance.

     The software fix was sent at about 5:20 p.m. PDT Monday.
The fix involved a relatively minor parameter change to celestial
body sensing software.  Using the upgraded flight software, the
spacecraft should be able to better identify its orientation in
space and prevent the switch-over to contingency mode that has
been occurring recently.

     Contingency mode causes the spacecraft to automatically
point at the sun.  While in that orientation, the solar array
also faces directly at the sun and is subject to the effects of
the solar wind.  Had a much longer period of time elapsed,
perhaps four to five times longer than that experienced during
this contingency mode incident, the spacecraft's trajectory could
have been affected.  The navigation team, however, reported
Monday that the spacecraft was still on course for arrival at
Mars on Aug. 24, 1993.  At this time, the fourth trajectory
correction maneuver, which was planned as a backup maneuver to
correct any errors in the final trajectory to Mars, does not
appear to be necessary.

     All spacecraft subsystems are operating well.  The science
payload will be powered on now that the spacecraft has been
restored to normal cruise mode.  Two-way communication also has
been reestablished using the high-gain antenna.

     Today the spacecraft is about 19 million kilometers (11
million miles) from Mars and 232 million kilometers (144 million
miles) from Earth, traveling at a velocity of about 7,200
kilometers per hour (4,300 miles per hour) with respect to Mars.

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SOURCE LIST

This list represents possible sources of items and information from independent
concessionaires and entrepreneurs, not available from the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, and is offered without recommendation or endorsement
by NASA.  Inquiry should be made directly to the appropriate source to
determine availability, price, and time required to fill orders before sending
money.



SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (MISSION REPORTS):

National Technical Information Services, 5285 Port Royal Road,
Springfield, VA 22151
NASA Center for Aerospace Information, 800 Elkridge Landing Road,
Linthicum Heights, MD 21090  301-621-0390



SPACECRAFT AND AIRPLANE MODELS:

Models of spacecraft may be purchased at hobby shops and toy departments of
your local departments stores, and also at some of the companies listed below.
The following firms are model-rocket manufacturers:

Estes Industries, PO Box 227, Penrose, CO 81240
Acme Rocket Company, Box 28283, Tempe, AZ 85285-8283
Revell, Inc., 4288 Glencoe Avenue, Venice, CA 90291
Flight Systems, Inc., 9300 East 68th Street, Raytown, MO 64133
Pacific Miniatures, Inc., 817 South Palm Avenue, Alhambra, CA 91803
Monogram Models, Inc., Morton Grove, IL 60053
Toys and Models Corporation, 222 River Street, Hackensack, NJ 07601
Wesco Models, Inc., 1453 J. Virginia Avenue, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
Scale Models, Inc., 111 Independence Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Movie Miniatures, 5115 Douglas Fir Drive, Suite F, Calabasas, CA 91302

You may also wish to contact the following non-profit organization:
National Association of Rocketry, 2140 Colburn Dr., Shakopee, MN  55379


SOUVENIRS AND MEMORABILIA COMMEMORATING SPACE, SUCH AS CAMERAS, TEXT BOOKS,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, EMBLEMS, PATCHES, DECALS, COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, FLIGHT
JACKETS, T-SHIRTS, CAPS, BUTTONS, ETC.:

AW/JSC Exchange Store, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058
Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Tranquility Base, Huntsville, AL 35807
National Medallion Company, Inc., PO Box 58127, Houston, TX 77058
Spaceport USA Tours, TW Recreational Services, Inc., TWRS, Kennedy Space
  Center, FL 32899
Communications Association Corporation, 250 Babcock Street, Melbourne, FL 32935
Smithsonian Institution Museum Shops, 900 Jefferson Drive SW,
  Washington, DC 20560
NASA Headquarters Exchange Store, 600 Maryland Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20546
Action Products, Inc., 344 Cypress Road, Ocala, FL 32672
Model Works, PO Box 17053, Boulder CO  80308-7053
International Space Hall of Fame Gift Shop, PO Box 25, Almogordo, NM 88310
GEWA Vistor Center Gift Shop, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Johnson and Associates, PO Box 46251, Pentagon, Washington, DC 20050
KSC Exchange Store, Code EXC, Kennedy Space Center, FL  32899
Pinnacle Designs, 6925 Canoga Ave., Canoga Park, CA  91303
AB Emblems, PO Box 695, Weaverville, NC  28787


SPACE SUITS:

ILC-Dover, Box 266, Frederica, DE 19946
Hamilton Standard, Windsor Locks, CT 06096



STAMPS:

Houston Hobby Center, PO Box 10791, Houston, TX 77018



MAPS: MOON, MARS, ETC.:

National Geographic Society, PO Box 2806, Washington, DC 20036
U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, 1200 South Eads Street,
  Arlington, VA 22202



PHOTOGRAPHS, SLIDES, ETC.:

AW/JSC Exchange Store, Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., San Francisco, CA 94112
Woodstock Products, Inc., PO Box 2519, Beverly Hills, CA 90213
GEWA Vistor Center Gift Shop, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771



8MM AND 16MM NASA FILMS:

National Audio Visual Center (GSA), Washington, DC 20409



SPACE-TYPE FREEZE-DEHYDRATED FOODS:

Oregon Freeze-Dry Foods, Inc., PO Box 1048, Albany, OR 97321
Sam-Andy Foods, PO Box 1120, Colton, CA 92324
Freeze Dry Products, 321 Eighth Street, NW, Evansville, IL 47708
G. Armanino & Sons, Inc., 1970 Carroll Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124
Spaceland Enterprises, PO Box 775, Merritt Island, FL 32952
Sky-Lab Foods, Inc., 177 Lake Street, White Plains, NY 10604
GEWA Vistor Center Gift Shop, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771
Action Products, Inc., 344 Cypress Rd., Ocala, FL  32672


SOLAR SYSTEM INFORMATION, CHARTS, ETC.:

The Hansen Planetarium, (for publications) 1845 South 300 West A,
  Salt Lake City, UT 84115-1804.  Toll-free Phone [phone]
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 60 Graden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 390 Ashton Ave., San Francisco, CA 94112
The Planetary Society, 65 N. Catalina Ave., Pasadena, CA  91106



SPECIAL SOURCES:

Abstracts of technical reports on imagery from Earth Resources Satellites
(LANDSAT) funded by NASA, prepared and distributed by National Technical
Service of Department of Commerce as a weekly bulletin; abstracts on NASA-owned
inventions available for licensing:

U.S. Department of Commerce
National Technical Information Services
Springfield, VA 22161

LANDSAT photographs and digital products are available from:

Technology Applications Center                   specializes in remote sensing
University of New Mexico                         technology
Albuquerque, NM 87106

EOSAT                                            LANDSAT
c/o EROS Data Center
Sioux Falls, SD 57198

National Climatic Center                         data in oceanographic,
NOAA Environmental Data Services                 hydrologic, and atmospheric
Federal Building                                 sciences
Asheville, NC 28801

Western Aerial Photograph Laboratory             agriculture imagery and data
Agricultural Stabilization &
Conversation Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
2502 Parley's Way
Salt Lake City, UT 84109


POWER FACTOR CONTROLLER DISTRIBUTOR

Energy Vent, Inc.
915 Valley Street
Dayton, OH 45404

AVIATION EDUCATION MATERIALS

Beech Aircraft Corporation
Aviation Education Dept. 95
9709 East Central
Wichita, KS  67201


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