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- NASA Daily News
- Wednesday, January 27, 1993
- Two Independence Square,
- Washington, D.C.
- Audio service: 202/358-3014
-
- % KSC technicians readying Columbia for move to Vehicle
- Assembly Building;
- % STS-54 post-mission briefing set for Monday, Feb. 1,
- at 4:00 pm EST;
- % STS-55 pre-mission briefings to begin on Wednesday,
- Feb. 3, at 9:30 am EST;
- % Geological, environmental, & remote sensing symposia
- set to begin next week .
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- Kennedy Space Center technicians are expecting to have
- Columbia ready to move from the Orbiter Processing
- Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building by this
- weekend. Activity currently underway in OPF Bay 2
- includes crew compartment and aft engine compartment
- closeouts. Activity remaining includes the standard
- weight and center-of-gravity determinations and
- installation of Columbia onto its transporter for the
- move to the VAB. Once in the VAB, currently anticipated
- to be by next Wednesday, the orbiter will be stacked onto
- the external tank and made ready for the move to the
- launch pad.
-
- KSC management will hold its launch readiness review on
- Monday, Feb. 8. The NASA Office of Space Flight
- management's formal Flight Readiness Review will be held
- at KSC on Thursday, Feb. 12. The launch dress rehearsal
- with the astronaut and ground launch team crews will take
- place on Feb. 11 and 12, with the simulated launch time
- at 11:00 am EST on Feb. 12.
-
- Preparations on Columbia are proceeding on a schedule
- which could allow the launch of the STS-55 mission in
- late February. The STS-55 mission is the second
- dedicated German research flight; the first was the D-1
- mission which flew on STS-61A in November 1985. This
- 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 include
- 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.
-
- Briefings on the mission objectives and science
- experiments will be held at the Johnson Space Center next
- Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 3 and 4. The briefings will
- be carried live on NASA Select television, and will begin
- at 9:30 am EST on Wednesday.
-
- Also, a post-mission briefing by the crew of the last
- mission, STS-54, will be held at JSC on Monday, Feb. 1.
- This also will be shown live on NASA Select television,
- beginning at 4:00 pm EST.
-
- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
-
- The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM)
- is hosting the 9th Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote
- Sensing in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Feb. 8 through
- Thursday, Feb. 11. Cooperating professional societies
- include the American Society for Photogrammetry and
- Remote Sensing, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
- the Geological Society of America, the Colorado Mining
- Association, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, the
- International Society for Optical Engineering, and the
- American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
-
- The Pasadena conference will feature special workshops on
- the geological applications of radar remote sensing and
- other workshops on geographic information systems (GIS).
- The conference will take place at the Pasadena Center
- Conference Building and at the nearby Doubletree Hotel.
-
- Other related international conferences scheduled in the
- near future include the 25th International Symposium on
- Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change, also
- being co-sponsored by ERIM, in Graz, Austria, the week of
- April 4 through 8; and the International Society for
- Optical Engineering and American Institute of Aeronautics
- and Astronautics jointly-hosted Optical Engineering and
- Photonics in Aerospace Science and Sensing Symposium to
- be held in Orlando, Fla., the week of April 12 through
- 16.
-
-
- 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.
-
- Wednesday, January 27, 1993
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA Today news program, today
- featuring a report on the upcoming STS-55 mission; a
- report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars
- Observer, now enroute to the Red Planet; a report on an
- experiment in the Antarctic which bears on the Mars
- mission; and a report on a NASA airplane which has an
- extra set of landing wheels.
-
- 12:15 pm
- Aeronautics & Space Report.
-
- 12:30 pm
- Science Operations in Space.
-
- 1:00 pm
- NASA 1992 P the Year in Review.
-
- 1:45 pm
- Magnetic Effects in Space.
-
- 2:00 pm
- Starfinder program #8.
-
- 2:30 pm
- Where Dreams Come From.
-
- 3:00 pm
- Total Quality Management program #31, 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.
-
- Thursday, January 28, 1993
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA Today news program.
-
- 12:15 pm
- Aeronautics & Space Report.
-
- 12:30 pm
- Aeronautics and Technology program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:00 pm
- Human space flight program block (title
- will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 2:00 pm
- Starfinder program #9.
-
- 2:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 3:00 pm
- Total Quality Management program #32, 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.
-
- Friday, January 29, 1993
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA Today news program.
-
- 12:15 pm
- Aeronautics & Space Report.
-
- 12:30 pm
- Aeronautics and Technology program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:00 pm
- Human space flight program block (title
- will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 2:00 pm
- Starfinder program #10.
-
- 2:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 3:00 pm
- Total Quality Management program #33, 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.
-
- Monday, February 1, 1993
- Live
- 4:00 pm
- STS-54 astronaut crew post-mission
- briefing from the Johnson Space Center.
-
- Tuesday, February 2, 1993
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA Today news program.
-
- 12:15 pm
- Aeronautics & Space Report.
-
- 12:30 pm
- Aeronautics and Technology program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:00 pm
- Human space flight program block (title
- will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 1:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 2:00 pm
- Starfinder program #11.
-
- 2:30 pm
- Earth and Space Science program block
- (title will be provided as schedule is developed).
-
- 3:00 pm
- Total Quality Management program #34, 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.
-
- Wednesday, February 3, 1993
- L:30 am
- STS-55 mission overview with Gary Coen,
- lead flight director, from Johnson Space Center.
- Live
- 10:30 am
- German Research Organization science
- overview with discipline investigation principal
- investigators, from JSC.
- Live
- 12:00 pm
- NASA science overview with discipline
- investigation principal investigators, from JSC.
- Live
- 2:00 pm
- Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment briefing
- with Louis McFadin, from JSC.
-
- Thursday, February 4, 1993
- Live
- 9:00 am
- STS-55 crew briefing with Steven Nagel,
- commander; Ternce Henricks, pilot; Jerry Ross, Bernard
- Harris, Jr., and Charles Precourt, mission specialists;
- and Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter, German payload
- specialists; from JSC.
-
-
- 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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