NASA Daily News Summary 2 June 2000

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release:  June 2, 2000

Media Advisory m00-109

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES
  NASA, DREAMTIME PARTNERSHIP PROPELS

  SPACE INFORMATION AGE TO NEW HEIGHTS

    Internet portal, interactive space

    experiences, digital images planned

              by new venture
VIDEO
  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***
  No Video File Today
  NOTE:  The 1 p.m. NASA Multimedia Commercialization Announcement

         will be replayed throughout the day.
  NOTE:  a status report of the deorbit of the Gamma Ray

         Observatory is available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/media/2000/CGRO_status_06-01.txt
  LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY REGARDING TODAY’S MULTIMEDIA

  PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
  UPCOMING LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS
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NEWS RELEASES
  NASA, DREAMTIME PARTNERSHIP PROPELS

  SPACE INFORMATION AGE TO NEW HEIGHTS

    Internet portal, interactive space

    experiences, digital images planned

              by new venture
NASA and Dreamtime Holdings, Inc., have formed a partnership that

will deliver the adventures of the space frontier through the new

technologies of the digital frontier.  The unprecedented agreement

was announced today at NASA’s Ames Research Center, in the heart

of California’s Silicon Valley.  It includes provisions to

provide, for the first time, high-definition television coverage

of astronaut activities aboard the International Space Station and

on Space Shuttle missions.  It will also create an easily

accessible, Web-searchable, digital archive of the best of NASA’s

space imagery.  The NASA-Dreamtime partnership will provide

unprecedented public access to space exploration by creating a

state-of-the-art multimedia portal, www.Dreamtime.com, that will,

with the click of a mouse, open the door to thousands of images,

sounds, documents, blueprints and plans from NASA’s currently

underused archives.  Roll out of the in-depth portal site will

begin within the next several months.
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-087.txt 
Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Peggy

Wilhide/Biran Welch (Phone 202/358-1600).
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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
LIVE INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITY REGARDING TODAY’S MULTIMEDIA

PARTNERSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
ATTENTION:

NEWS ASSIGNMENT EDITORS AND AFTERNOON & EVENING PRODUCERS
Live NASA interviews will be available today from 2-6 p.m. PDT on

Telstar 5 (97 degrees west) transponder 25 vertical downlink

frequency 12146.0 mhz audio 6.2-6.9 mhz.
NASA ANNOUNCES FIRST MAJOR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AGREEMENT
This morning at 10 a.m. PDT NASA and its newest commercial partner

will announce a major multimedia collaboration.
From 2-6 p.m. PDT (5-9 p.m. EDT) Brian Welch, NASA’s Director of

Media Services will be available for live satellite interviews

from the NASA AMES Research Center in Mountain View, CA. 
Welch was part of the NASA team that worked on this groundbreaking

partnership that will revolutionize the way NASA’s visual images

are distributed to the media and the American public.
Possible questions:
__What does this first major international space station agreement

mean?
__How will this partnership affect life on the International Space

Station?
__How will astronauts benefit from this innovative public-private

partnership for multimedia and space imagery?
__What does this agreement mean for the American public?
__How will NASA use its news HDTV resources?
To schedule a live shot please call Fred Brown at (650) 604-

0429/5018 or page at (800) 759-8888 pin 1239840.
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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS
NOTE: NASA will replay the multimedia announcement press

conference every 1 1/2 hours today, beginning at 3 p.m. EDT, and

Saturday and Sunday, as Compton Gamma Ray Observatory events

permit.
June 2, Friday

– 1:00 p.m. – NASA Multimedia Commercialization Announcement –

  Ames (Questions will originate from the Ames Research Center

  only.) 
June 3, Saturday

– 11:30 p.m. – Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry Live Coverage

  and Commentary – GSFC
June 4, Sunday

– 1:30 a.m. – Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry (no video will

  be available) – GSFC

– 6:00 a.m. – Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Reentry News Briefing

– GSFC
For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html
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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.
ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO

FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT

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.
NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85 degrees

West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on 3880.0

megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,

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:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html
For general information about NASA TV see:

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