NASA Daily News Summary 19 June 2000

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release:  June 19, 2000

Media Advisory m00-120

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES
  MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE
  NASA’s SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
VIDEO
  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***
  VIDEO FILE FOR JUNE 19, 2000
    ITEM 1 – PREDICTING ARRIVAL OF CORONAL MASS EJECTIONS –

             GSFC

    ITEM 2 – DIGITAL HUMAN-IMAGE ANIMATION COMPUTER SYSTEM – JPL

             (REPLAY)
  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS
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NEWS RELEASES
MORE ACCURATE SPACE STORM WARNINGS NOW POSSIBLE
     The arrival from the Sun of billion-ton electrified-gas

clouds that cause severe space storms can now be predicted to

within a half-day, a great improvement over the best previous

estimates of within 2 to 5 days. 
     Scientists at the Catholic University of America, Washington,

D.C., and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, have

created a model that reliably predicts how much time it takes for

these clouds, called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), to traverse

the gulf between the Sun and the Earth, based on their initial

speed from the Sun and their interaction with the solar wind. 
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Dolores Beasley

(Phone: 202/358-1753).
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Susan

Hendrix (Phone: 310/286-7745).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-095.txt 
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NASA’s SHARP PROGRAM CELEBRATES 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE
     NASA and Modern Technology Systems, Inc.,Riverdale, MD, have

selected 200 high school students to work at eleven participating

NASA field installations in the 2000 Summer High School

Apprenticeship Research Program (SHARP). 
     SHARP is an intensive science and engineering apprenticeship

program specifically designed to attract and increase

underrepresented students’ participation and success rates in

mathematics, science and engineering courses, as well as to

encourage career paths that help build a pool of underrepresented

science and engineering professionals in the workplace. 
    Celebrating its twentieth year, the eight-week summer program

is sponsored by NASA’s Education Division and participating NASA

installations. This years’ program began on June 5th and will

continue through August 18th.  
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Sonja Alexander

(Phone:  202/358-1761).
Contact at Modern Technology Systems, Inc., Riverdale, MD:  Lisa

M. Williams (Phone:  301/985-5171).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-096.txt 
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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-

mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.
Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html
Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html
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VIDEO
UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS
June 21, Wednesday

– *TBD – NASA’s Mars Program after the Young Report Hearing Before

   the House Committee on Science (recorded on 6/20/00) – HQ
June 24, Saturday

– 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ

– 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ

– 11:00 a.m. – Noon – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ
June 25, Sunday

– 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ

– 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ

– 11:00 a.m. – Noon – That NASA Show:  “Space Clothes” and

  “Tortillas in Space” – HQ
For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html
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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO

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ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.

and midnight Eastern Time.
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megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
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Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,

202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov
During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will

continue to be posted at:

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For general information about NASA TV see:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/
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