NASA Daily News Summary 27 Mar 2000

NASA Daily News Summary

For Release:  Mar. 27, 2000

Media Advisory m00-59

SUMMARY
NEWS RELEASES:
None Today.
VIDEO:
VIDEO FILE:
ITEM 1 – ISS OVERVIEW BRIEFING AND STS-101 ANIMATION AND TRAINING

         B-ROLL – JSC

ITEM 2 – STS-96 MISSION HIGHLIGHTS, B-ROLL OF SERVICE MODULE

         (replay)

ITEM 3 – IMAGE LAUNCH AND PRE-FLIGHT ANIMATION (replay)

ITEM 4 – NEW COOL FLIGHT SUIT – DFRC
LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK
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LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK
March 27, Monday

STS-101 L-14 PreFlight Press Briefings

– 9:00 a.m. – International Space Station Overview – JSC

– 10:00 a.m. – STS-101 Mission Overview – JSC

– 11:00 a.m. – STS-101 EVA Briefing – JSC

– 1:00 p.m. – Orbiter Upgrades Briefing – JSC

– 2:00 p.m. – STS-101 Crew Briefing – JSC
March 28, Tuesday

– *9:30 – 10:30 a.m. – Ames Modulator Validation Test – ARC

– *2:00 p.m. – Mars Program. Independent Assessment Team. Report

   Briefing – HQ
March 29, Wednesday

– 1:00 p.m. – New Planets Space Science Update – HQ
March 30, Thursday

– *12:30 p.m. – X-38 Drop Test – DFRC (Note:  test time subject to

   change depending on weather conditions)

– 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. – Mars 2000 (replay from 2/28/00) – HQ
March 31, Friday

– 9:00 a.m. – Noon – FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the

  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies;

  Appropriations Committee (recorded 3/30/00) – HQ

– 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. – FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the

  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies;

  Appropriations Committee (recorded 3/30/00 continued) – HQ

– 5:30 – 10:00 p.m. – “Planet Hunting Mission” Live News

  Interviews – JPL 
April 1, Saturday

– 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. – Ames Research Center Western Regional

  FIRST Robotics Competition – San Jose State University Event

  Center, San Jose, CA (direct uplink to NTV)
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NEWS RELEASES:
None today.
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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:
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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