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- Subject: NASA Daily News for 01/25/93 (Forwarded)
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- [Note: I'm filling in for Peter Yee who is on travel this week.
- Ron Baalke
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- NASA Daily News
- Monday, January 25, 1993
- Two Independence Square,
- Washington, D.C.
- Audio service: 202/358-3014
-
- % Kennedy staff continues preparation work on Columbia
- for STS-55.
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- KSC technicians continue their processing activities on
- Columbia, presently still in Orbiter Processing Facility
- bay 2 where it is being outfitted with the Spacelab
- module and tunnel for its dedicated German science
- flightPD2 on the STS-55 mission. The KSC team was
- expecting to have completed the aft compartment closeouts
- by this morning. The astronaut crew equipment interface
- test occurred this past weekend; the Spacelab interface
- verification test previously had been successfully
- completed.
-
- The STS-55 mission is a dedicated German research flight,
- as was the D-1 mission which flew on STS-61A in November
- 1985. The flight is scheduled as an 8-day and 22-hour,
- seven-crewmember mission with the Spacelab long module
- and a variety of scientific discipline investigations.
- This mission's major Spacelab facilities will continue
- the exploration of fluid physics and human physiological
- changes in microgravity. Additional experiments will
- continue the investigations of the Earth's atmosphere,
- the surface topography of the planet, and additional
- investigations in galactic astronomy and technology
- development.
-
- The mission will also feature the flight of two German
- payload specialists and will provide both the U.S. and
- German crewmembers with daily opportunities to
- communicate with Earth-bound citizens in both countries
- through the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment gear, which
- is flying again on this mission.
-
- Meanwhile, in OPF bay 3, technicians are continuing their
- turn around processing on Discovery for its upcoming
- STS-56 mission to fly ATLAS payload experiments again.
- The STS-56 mission is presently targeted for a late March
- launch.
-
- Workers at KSC also are preparing to remove the Diffuse
- X-ray Spectrometer from Endeavour as part of post-mission
- operations on that orbiter.
-
-
- 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.
-
- Monday, January 25, 1993
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA Today news program, today
- featuring a report on the latest measurements of the
- Antarctic Ozone Hole; a report on the science experiment
- flown on the last shuttle mission and how it might have
- answered a 30-year old astronomy mystery; a report from
- the 181st meeting of the American Astronomical Society
- and how that society is relying on NASA science; a report
- on what some believe may have been a UFO on the STS-48
- mission, but which a NASA engineer says emphatically is
- not; a report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on both
- the Ulysses and Magellan missions; and finally a report
- on a book which may give scientists a better
- understanding of how Congress works.
-
- 12:15 pm
- Aeronautics & Space Report.
-
- 12:30 pm
- Apollo 12 for Science.
-
- 1:00 pm
- Sail On Voyager.
-
- 2:00 pm
- Starfinder program #6.
-
- 2:30 pm
- Project Laser.
-
- 3:00 pm
- Total Quality Management program #29 from
- the University of New Mexico series.
-
- at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast
- schedule of the day repeats.
-
-
- This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through
- Friday. It is a service of NASA's Office of Public
- Affairs. The editor is Charles Redmond, 202/358-3014 or
- CREDMOND on NASAmail. 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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