Add to NASA Daily News Summary – Media Advisory m99-248a

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For Release: Dec. 2, 1999

Media Advisory m99-248a

Summary:
LAUNCH OF HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION SET FOR DECEMBER 11
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LAUNCH OF HUBBLE SERVICING MISSION SET FOR DECEMBER 11
     NASA managers today set Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999, as the

launch date for NASA’s final Space Shuttle mission this

century. The 96th Space Shuttle mission will be highlighted

by four space walks to service the Hubble Space Telescope.  
     Discovery is scheduled to lift off from Launch Pad 39-B

at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, FL, at 12:13 a.m. EST, the

opening of a 38-minute launch window. Discovery’s planned 10-

day flight, designated Shuttle mission STS-103, is scheduled

to end with a night landing at Kennedy at about 9:21 p.m. EST

on Dec. 20.  
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Kirsten Williams

(Phone 202/358-0243).

Contact at NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL:  Joel Wells (Phone

321/867-2468).

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX:  James

Hartsfield (Phone 281/483-5111).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-141.txt 
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