NASA Daily News Summary 26 May 2000

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release:  May 26, 2000

Media Advisory m00-105

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES
NASA to Announce Multimedia Partnership
NASA and Veterans Affairs Partner for Patient Safety
VIDEO
  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***
For more information, watch NASA TV and check the Shuttle Mission Schedule for

updates at:

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html
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NASA to Announce Multimedia Partnership
     NASA and its newest commercial partner will announce a major multimedia

collaboration next week. The unprecedented public-private partnership for

multimedia and space imagery will be discussed at a news conference originating

from the main auditorium (Bldg. N201) at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain

View, CA, at 10 a.m. PDT on June 2.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Brian Welch

(Phone:  202/358-1600).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-023.txt
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NASA and Veterans Affairs Partner for Patient Safety
     News media are invited to attend a signing ceremony that will forge a new

partnership for patient safety.  The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on May 30

in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, located at 529 14th Street, NW,

Washington, DC. Dr. Henry McDonald, Director of NASA’s Ames Research Center,

Moffett Field, CA, and Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, Acting Under Secretary for Health

for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will sign a formal agreement that

paves the way for development of a voluntary external patient safety reporting

system.  The VA Patient Safety Reporting System will be operated by NASA and

will be modeled after the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS).
For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-022.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
LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS
Please see the following website:
NASA TV Mission Schedule

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html
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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Contract Awards
Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information

Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html
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