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SPACE Digest                                     Volume 13 : Issue 142

Today's Topics:
         NASA Headline News for 02/07/91 (Forwarded)
      Truly delivers NASA budget request to Congress (Forwarded)
           Payload Status for 01/16/91 (Forwarded)
            Augustine to speak at NIST (!)
             Re: THE BLUE PLANET
               Re: Landsat Photographs
             Satellite photos of the gulf

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Date: 8 Feb 91 01:01:33 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: NASA Headline News for 02/07/91 (Forwarded)


             Headline News
Internal Communications Branch (P-2) NASA Headquarters

  Thursday, February 7, 1991    Audio Service: 202 / 755-1788

This is NASA Headline News for Thursday, February 7, 1991

Kennedy Space Center technicians have discovered another
problem associated with one of the three replacement
thruster units installed recently on Discovery.  The heater on
one of the thrusters still does not work.  Troubleshooting
activities are now aimed at determining if the problem is with
the wire or the heater.  Rollover is still set for late Friday/early
Saturday, pending further resolution of the thruster problem.

On Atlantis, workers installed window #6 in the crew cabin
yesterday and are in the process of installing window #1 today.
The crew equipment interface test will occur Saturday, Feb. 9.
Members of the STS-37 crew are expected to arrive at KSC late
tomorrow.

Work on Columbia is on hold while it awaits the roll over to
Discovery's Orbiter Processing Facility slot.

  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The Magellan spacecraft and its radar system continue to
perform normally.  Temperatures of several spacecraft
subsystems have been near their alarm limits because Magellan
is now getting more direct sunlight that it did earlier in the
mission. Temperatures are being monitored closely by Jet
Propulsion Laboratory flight engineers.  The Magellan flight
operations team is developing plans to turn the spacecraft
periodically so that the various elements will receive periodic
shading from the sun.  Project Manager Tony Spear said his
team also was working to systematically remove sources of
command errors, while at the same time improving the uplink
procedures.  Since launch, there have been 18 command errors
out of 199,406 commands, or about 1 out of 10,000.

  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

NASA yesterday announced the selection of 26 Space
Grant State Consortia.  These newly selected consortia
represent 132 colleges, universities and industrial partners.
This selection brings the total number of participating
institutions to more than 300 in 46 states and the District of
Columbia.  The latest program grants were targeted to states
with colleges and universities involved in nationally competitive
aerospace research and educational programs.  The 4-year,
$150,000-per-year grant will be used to initiate new programs
and to strengthen existing capabilities.


Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA
Select TV.  All times are Eastern.  **indicates a live program.

Thursday, 2/7/91
    11:30 am    NASA Update will be transmitted.

    12:00 pm    Starfinder program: "Pictures from Numbers."

    12:15 pm    Stennis Space Center 1991 video review of
                            activities.

    12:30 pm    Looking for Answers program.

     1:00 pm    **NASA Administrator Richard Truly's testimony
            before the House Committee on Science, Space
            and Technology, George Brown (D-Calif.)
            chairman, live from Rayburn House Office
            Building, Room 2318.



All events and times may change without notice.  This report is
filed daily, Monday through Friday, at 12:00 pm, EST.  It is a
service of Internal Communications Branch at NASA
Headquarters.  Contact:  CREDMOND on NASAmail or at
202/453-8425.


NASA Select TV:  Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band, 72
degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz.

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Date: 8 Feb 91 01:04:35 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Truly delivers NASA budget request to Congress (Forwarded)

Don Savage
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
February 7, 1991
(Phone:  [phone])


RELEASE:  91-21

TRULY DELIVERS NASA BUDGET REQUEST TO CONGRESS


NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today briefed members of the House
Committee on Science, Space and Technology on the President's fiscal
year 1992 budget request for NASA.  The Committee is chaired by
Representative George E. Brown Jr. (D-Calif.).

In his statement, Truly said "This request manifests the President's
belief that NASA activities make significant contributions to our
competitive posture in the global marketplace, to our national pride
and accomplishment, to our creative and intellectual spirit, to our
understanding of the fragile Earth we inhabit and to our economic and
national security."  He also said the request reflects Congressional
guidance to temper the proposed rate of growth of NASA's budget and to
restructure Space Station Freedom, and responds to recommendations of
the Report of the Advisory Committee on the Future of the U.S. Space
Program.

The request is for $15.7 billion, a 13.6 percent increase from the
current year appropriation.  The majority of NASA's budget, 99 percent,
supports already- approved programs, including  almost $3 billion for
space science programs.  Among the areas given special emphasis by
Truly were:

o  The New Launch System to be jointly developed with the Department of
Defense,

o  LIFESAT, a reusable biosatellite which will help determine radiation
protection requirements for long-duration space flight,

o  The Mission to Planet Earth, NASA's contribution to the U.S. Global Change
Research Program, which manifests the commitment of the agency and the
Administration to this program with important ecological benefits,

o  A 17 percent increase for NASA's educational activities.  Truly said it
"represents a sustained commitment on the part of NASA and the President to
stimulate young people's interest in science, mathematics and engineering,
provide resources for teachers and support university-level activity in these
areas."

The NASA Administrator described the budget request as one that would make
NASA a "more excellent" agency.  He said it "represents the desire of the
President to forge a consensus on the goals and objectives of the civil space
program."

- end -

EDITOR'S NOTE:  The full text of Truly's statement is available from the NASA
Newsroom, Room 6043, NASA Headquarters, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20546; Telephone [phone].

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Date: 18 Jan 91 18:33:55 GMT
From: trident.arc.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter E. Yee)
Subject: Payload Status for 01/16/91 (Forwarded)


    Daily Status/KSC Payload Management and Operations 01-16-91


    -    STS-35 ASTRO-1/BBXRT (at VAB)

    Freon servicing GSE preps and validations continue today
    along with DDU troubleshooting.


    -    STS-39 AFP-675/IBSS/STP-01 (at VPF)

    The IBSS/CITE end-to-end test will be performed today.


    -    STS-40 SLS-1 (at O&C)

    Power on testing will be active today.


    -    STS-37 GRO (at PHSF)

    Fueling post-operations continue.


    -    STS-42 IML-1 (at O&C)

    Spacelab integration continues today.


    -    STS-45 Atlas-1 (at O&C)

    Experiment and pallet staging continue.


    -    STS-46 TSS-1 (at O&C)

    Pallet staging continues along with sets off-line
    operations.


    -    STS-47 Spacelab-J (at O&C)

    Rack 7 and 10 integration continues.


    -    STS-50 USML (at O&C)

    No work is scheduled for today.


    -    STS-62 LITE-1 (at O&C)

    No work is scheduled for today.

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Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 19:48:29 EST
From: John Roberts <[e-mail]>
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are those of the sender
    and do not reflect NIST policy or agreement.
Subject: Augustine to speak at NIST (!)


Advance Notice
NIST Colloquium Series

"The Future of the U.S. Space Program"
Norman R. Augustine
Chairman and CEO, Martin-Marietta Corporation

Thursday, February 14, 1991, 10:30 a.m.
Red Auditorium, Administration Building
[Gaithersburg, MD]

President Bush appointed Mr. Augustine chairman of the Advisory Committee
on the Future of the U.S. Space Program in the fall of 1990. The purpose of
this independent committee was to advise the NASA administrator on overall
approaches NASA management can use to implement the U.S. space program for
the coming decades. The committee produced a report in 120 days containing
14 specific recommendations, the first of which stated "that the civil
space science program should have first priority for NASA resources...."
Mr. Augustine will discuss the findings and recommendations of the
committee and the relationship of the civil space program to the vigor of
U.S. science and industrial competitiveness.

Outside guests are required to register by noon on the Tuesday prior to
this colloquium with Diane Harrison on 301/975-2776; this requirement does
not apply to persons with valid federal identification. For further
information contact W. Robert Kelly on 301/975-4139. Please note that this
colloquium will be held on Thursday, February 14th in the Red Auditorium.
...........................................................................
[Note: This is not an official notice - I'm just posting it as an item of
general interest. Registration is now required because all government
facilities have tightened security as a result of the current situation.
If you are not a government employee and don't get the proper prior
permission, they won't let you in - sorry. I will make a strong effort to
attend, and post notes on the talk. - JWR]
      John Roberts
      [e-mail]

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Date: 18 Jan 91 16:48:21 GMT
From: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!euclid.jpl.nasa.gov![e-mail]  (Peter Scott)
Subject: Re: THE BLUE PLANET

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Daniel Fischer) writes:

> A technical question: there are two kinds of giant-screen cinemas, one with
> a flat screen ('5 stories high' or so go the ads), the other one working inside
> a planetarium dome - which one of these is the actual 'IMAX' system?

The first one.

>Is the
> generic term for the planetarium-based version OMNIMAX?

Yes.

> And: do both versions
> use exactly the same footage (with square-sized 70x70mm-frames - the Dutch
> 'Omniversum' sells samples to visitors)?

No.  They're different frame formats.

--
This is news.  This is your       |    Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
brain on news.  Any questions?    |    ([e-mail])

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Date: 8 Feb 91 14:52:48 GMT
From: deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!sousa.enet.dec.com!sndpit.enet.dec.com![e-mail]  (Willie Smith)
Subject: Re: Landsat Photographs


In article <u961w3w163w@undrground>, undrground![e-mail] (Sean Petty) writes...
> Does anyone know where (or if) any Landsat Photographs are available via
>anon FTP... Or better yet, is there a government office that makes these
>available (at a cost, of course!) ? I am interested in obtaining some of
>these, but am unsure where to start.

I doubt you will find them by FTP, the actual digital datasets are still
pretty expensive.  _But_, you can get black-and-white 1:1M prints,
negatives, or positives for $10, $18, $12 respectively for any Landsat data
more than 2 years old from EDC, (Eros (Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite)
Data Center).  Call them at [phone].  You get 80 meter resolution
from the MSS scanner, 135x180 kilometers on a picture 135x180 mm in size.
I think you have to select one band from (green, red, near IR, second near
IR), but I'm not sure.  They sell a bunch of other stuff, including raw
data tapes, but the photos are downright cheap!  Apparently since this
stuff was gathered with taxpayer's dollars, they have to make it available.

Willie Smith
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
{Usenet!Backbone}!decwrl!sndpit.enet.dec.com!smith

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Date: 8 Feb 91 00:44:42 GMT
From: borg!homer![e-mail]
Subject: Satellite photos of the gulf


    Re the recent discussion of Gulf satellite photos, there is a
Clarinet article discussing this topic in alt.desert-storm and
clari.news.military (Subject: Gulf war changes rules for
eye-in-the-sky firms) which some people may wish to track down.
Please *don't* repost it here, that's illegal.
--
    Jon Leech ([e-mail])    __@/
    "Opossums ran amok in Chapel Hill this weekend..."
    _The Daily Tar Heel_, 11/1/88

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