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11/16/92: BRIEFING 11/19 ON HUBBLE IMAGE OF DISK AROUND POSSIBLE BLACK HOLE



Paula Cleggett-Haleim
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.            November 16, 1992


Jim Elliott
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.



NOTE TO EDITORS:  N92-98


     Hubble Space Telescope's first image of a giant dust disk orbiting a
suspected black hole will be the subject of a media briefing Thursday, Nov. 19,
1992, at 1:00 p.m.  EST in the NASA auditorium, 400 Maryland Ave., S.W.,
Washington, D.C.

     Dr.  Walter Jaffe, of Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, will present
this recent finding and show an image clearly depicting the Frisbee-shaped
disk.  The image provides astronomers with the first clear view of the disk's
bright hub, which presumably harbors a black hole.

     The disk is at the core of galaxy NGC 4261, chosen because it is one of
the dozen brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, located 45 million
light-years away.

     Host Dr. Stephen Maran, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
Greenbelt, Md., will be joined by veteran panelists Dr. Bruce Margon, Professor
of Astronomy and Chairman of the Department of Astronomy, University of
Washington, Seattle, and Dr. Daniel Weedman, Professor of Astronomy at
Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

     The briefing will be carried live on NASA Select television, Satcom F-2R,
Transponder 13, 72 degrees west longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz.
Questions will be taken from NASA centers.

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11/24/92:  CHANGE IN SPACE SHUTTLE PREFLIGHT BRIEFINGS SET

HQ N92-101/STS BRIEFINGS CHANGE

Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.              November 23, 1992

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston



EDITORS NOTE:  N92-101

        Beginning with the first Space Shuttle flight in 1993, the format for
preflight mission briefings will change.  The mission overview and crew
briefings will be held approximately 2 weeks before the flight instead of a
month before the mission.

        In conjunction with this change, NASA will no longer conduct round-
robin interviews with astronauts in this timeframe.  One-on-one interviews with
crew members still will be accommodated up to 60 days prior to each
flight.  In addition, extensive pre-taped interviews with each crew member will
be provided to media upon request.

        All briefings will be broadcast on NASA Select television, and
reporters are invited to participate at the originating location or by two-way
audio from other NASA locations.  The next preflight briefings are scheduled
for early January, and an announcement will be issued with the schedule in
December.

        NASA Select television is carried on Satcom F2R, transponder 13, at 72
degrees west latitude.
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DAILY NEWS/TV SKED 11/24/92

Daily News
Tuesday, November 24, 1992  24-hour audio service at 202/755-1788

 % KSC continues on schedule for STS-53 launch; workers get holiday;
 % GE announces it will sell Aerospace unit to Martin Marietta for $3 billion;
 % Tech 2002 to feature 120 special presentations and hundreds of exhibits;
 % Fourth Town Meeting to take place in Pasadena Thursday, Dec. 3;
 % A reminder during the STS-53 mission, Galileo flies by Earth for last time.

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

Workers on Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A continue their closeout
activities on Discovery for its launch next Wednesday, December 2, at 6:59 am
EST. Activity today includes purges of the oxygen and hydrogen tanks inside the
shuttle main external tank and closeout of the orbiter payload bay doors later
this evening.  Activity completed yesterday included installation of mission
software into the orbiter general purpose computer mass memory units and aft
engine compartment closeout.

KSC technicians and launch team members have Thursday and Friday off for the
Thanksgiving holiday with Saturday designated as a contingency make-up day for
any work which might need to be scheduled.

This mission will be the 15th flight for Discovery and the 52nd in the Space
Shuttle program.  It will also be the last scheduled Department of Defense
mission aboard a shuttle.  As such, the mission will entail a few changes from
normal shuttle mission coverage: there will be no television of Discovery's
payload bay during the mission; in-cabin television will be transmitted only
after the conclusion of the DOD operations; and for the period of time during
which DOD operations are being conducted, no mission commentary excepting
status reports on the crew and orbiter will be provided.  In addition, for this
mission only, there will be no NASA Select daily two-hour summaries made
available via satellite to Alaska and Hawaii.

Nominal mission duration is 7 days and 5 hours with a scheduled end-of-mission
landing at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility at 12:53 pm on Wednesday, Dec. 9.
Mission commander and pilot are veteran astronauts David Walker and Robert
Cabana. Mission specialists include veteran astronauts Guy Bluford and James
Voss and rookie astronaut Michael Richard Clifford.

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

The General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut, and other locations,
announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with the Martin Marietta
Corp., Bethesda, Maryland, whereby Martin will purchase GE's Aerospace Division
for approximately $3 billion.  GE would in turn receive a portion of Martin
common stock and two positions on the Martin board of directors.  GE Aerospace
is a major contractor on the Space Station Freedom program and for the second
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System Ground Terminal at White Sands, New
Mexico. GE Aerospace has most of its technical and research facilities in the
suburban Philadelphia area.  GE had previously purchased RCA Corp. and had
subsequently merged the then GE Space Division with the then RCA Astro Division
to form the GE Aerospace unit.

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

On Tuesday, December 1, NASA will host the third national technology transfer
conference - Technology 2002 - at the Baltimore Convention Center. The
three-day conference is sponsored by NASA, the NASA Tech Briefs magazine and
the Technology Utilization Foundation and will spotlight leading-edge
technologies from NASA and other federal agencies which can be used by U.S.
industry to develop new or improved products or services. (More on the Tech
2002 conference on back...)

The conference this year will feature more than 120 presentations highlighting
inventions which have potential commercial use in the fields of manufacturing,
advanced materials, computing, communications, microelectronics, biotechnology,
energy, and environmental science.  In addition, the conference hosts will hold
several workshops on patent licensing, cooperative research and Small Business
Innovation Research grants.

Since its inception three years ago, the conference has more than tripled in
attendance.  Nearly 6,000 engineers and business managers are expected for this
year's technology showcase.  More than 60,000 square feet of display space will
be filled with exhibits from all nine NASA centers, other government agencies,
universities and a diverse array of high-technology firms.  For additional
information, please contact 800/944-6272.

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

The fourth in NASA's series of Town Meetings will take place next Thursday,
Dec. 3, on the Pasadena campus of the California Institute of Technology in the
Ramo Auditorium. The Town Meetings include presentations by top NASA officials
and invited individuals from universities and industry in the region of the
meeting.  Members of the audience have several opportunities during the 4
1/2-hour long events to raise questions or comment on the presentations.  As
with the previous three meetings, the Pasadena Town Meeting will be covered
live on NASA Select television.

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

On Tuesday Dec. 8, at 10:09 am EST, during the last scheduled orbit day of the
STS-53 mission, Galileo will fly by Earth for its final gravitational boost on
its long and winding path toward Jupiter. The flyby will put Galileo just over
two hundred miles above the Indian Ocean as it steals the final bit of angular
momentum which it needs to get to Jupiter in 1995.  On the way to Jupiter,
Galileo will fly by another asteroid - Ida in August next year.  Galileo is
scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in December 1995 at which time the probe will be
sent into the giant planet's swirling atmosphere and the orbiter will begin its
multiple-encounters of the planets huge moons.  Galileo managers and scientists
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will be providing details of the Earth flyby
the morning of December 8.


   Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events on NASA Select TV.
Note that all events and times may change without notice, and that all times
listed are Eastern. Live indicates a program is transmitted live.

Tuesday, November 24, 1992
Live     12:00 pm  NASA Today news program, today
                   featuring a report on the weekend's successful launch of
                   a Scout rocket from the West Coast; a look at a promising
                   new technology which could assist in satellite
                   communications; a report on a recent contract award at
                   the Marshall center which ensures the continued servicing
                   of the Spacelab system; and, as always, a look back at
                   this date in NASA's history.
         12:15 pm  Aeronautics & Space Report.
         12:30 pm  Apollo 8.
          1:00 pm  Adventures in Research.
          1:30 pm  Houston, We Have a Satellite.
          2:00 pm  Starfinder program #14.
          2:30 pm  Project LASER.
          3:00 pm  Total Quality Management program #2 from
                   the University of New Mexico series.
          4:00 pm  8:00 pm & 12:00 midnight  NASA Today and
                   subsequent programming repeats.

NASA Select TV is carried on GE Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees
West Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio subcarrier is
6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
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11/24/92:  SPACE SHUTTLE STS-53 PRELAUNCH BRIEFINGS SCHEDULED

HQ N92-102/STS-53 KSC BRIEFINGS

Jim Cast
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.             November 24, 1992

Karl Kristofferson
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

Maj. Dave Thurston
U.S. Air Force



EDITORS NOTE:  N92-102

       The STS-53 prelaunch briefing, originating from NASA's Kennedy Space
Center, Fla., will be carried live on NASA Select television.  The launch
countdown is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 29.  Launch of
STS-53/Discovery is Dec. 2 at 6:59 a.m.  EST.

        The primary Department of Defense payload for STS-53 is classified and
will not be briefed.  All briefing times are EST.

Sunday, Nov. 29 (L-3)

11:30 a.m.  Countdown status report by NASA Test Director Bill Dowdell, and
payload status report by Bill Parsons, STS-53 Launch Site Support Manager (to
be followed by the STS-53 Flight Crew arrival at approximately 1 p.m.)

Monday, Nov. 30 (L-2)

9 a.m.  Countdown status report by Mike Leinbach, Shuttle Test Director;
payload status by Bill Parsons and weather status by Ed Priselac, Shuttle
Weather Officer, USAF.


Tuesday, Dec. 1 (L-1)

8:30 a.m.  Countdown Status Report by Al Sofge, Shuttle Test Director and
payload status by Bill Parsons

8:45 - 10:15 a.m.  DoD secondary experiments panel chaired by Lt. Col. James
McLeroy, USAF, STS-53 Deputy Mission Director.

10:15 - 11 a.m.  NASA secondary experiment briefings on ODERACS by George
Levin, Orbital Debris Program Manager, NASA HQ, and Susan Driscoll, Marshall
Space Flight Center Project Manager for FARE.

11 a.m.  STS-53 prelaunch news conference with Leonard Nicholson, Space Shuttle
Program Manager; Robert Sieck, Kennedy Space Center Launch Director, and Capt.
Dean Hazen, USAF/KSC Weather LiaisonOfficer.

Wednesday, Dec. 2 (Launch Day)

        NASA Select commentary and television coverage of the launch of
Discovery is scheduled to begin at approximately 2 a.m.  NASA Select television
is available on Satcom F-2R, Transponder 13, located at 72 degrees west
longitude, frequency 3960.0 MHz, audio 6.8 MHz.
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11/24/92:  CHANGE IN SPACE SHUTTLE PREFLIGHT BRIEFINGS SET

HQ N92-101/STS BRIEFINGS CHANGE

Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.              November 23, 1992

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston



EDITORS NOTE:  N92-101

        Beginning with the first Space Shuttle flight in 1993, the format for
preflight mission briefings will change.  The mission overview and crew
briefings will be held approximately 2 weeks before the flight instead of a
month before the mission.

        In conjunction with this change, NASA will no longer conduct round-
robin interviews with astronauts in this timeframe.  One-on-one interviews with
crew members still will be accommodated up to 60 days prior to each
flight.  In addition, extensive pre-taped interviews with each crew member will
be provided to media upon request.

        All briefings will be broadcast on NASA Select television, and
reporters are invited to participate at the originating location or by two-way
audio from other NASA locations.  The next preflight briefings are scheduled
for early January, and an announcement will be issued with the schedule in
December.

        NASA Select television is carried on Satcom F2R, transponder 13, at 72
degrees west latitude.
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MGN REPORT 11/23

Magellan Status

Status report of Magellan for Monday, November 23, 1992:

1.  Magellan continues to operate normally, transmitting a
    carrier plus 40 bps X-band signal which is precisely
    tracked by the DSN stations to provide gravity data.

2.  The G2325 command sequence was successfully uplinked and
    began execution Friday morning.  Later this morning,
    commands will be sent to change the star pair used for
    starcals.

3.  Early this morning, there was a triple TWTA SSO (spurious
    shutoff of the traveling wave tube amplifier).  The
    spacecraft recovers automatically from these events.

4.  The spacecraft has completed 6160 orbits of Venus; 524 so
    far in Cycle 4, which will end on May 25, 1993.

5.  At 10 am this morning, Dr. David Senske, Magellan Research
    Associate, will speak on Magellan's Gravity Mission and
    Venus' Geophysical Patterns.

6.  A Magellan award ceremony to issue NASA Group Award
    certificates will be held Tuesday, Nov. 24, 1992 at 3:00
    pm in Von Karman Auditorium.
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