NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Dec. 2, 1998

Media Advisory 98-87

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

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STS-88 Launch Slated for Dec. 3, 1998
Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite Launch Scheduled
Engineering and Testing Support To Be Supplied By International
Space Station Contract Modification
NASA Selects Raytheon STX To Provide Goddard Support
NASA Video File for Dec. 2, 1998

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STS-88 LAUNCH SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, DEC. 3

Thursday, Dec. 3, STS-88, the first shuttle mission in the assembly of the
International
Space Station, is slated to launch at approximately 4:00 a.m. ET

http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-88/countdown.html

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Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite To Study Star Formation

NASA's Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) launch is scheduled for

this
evening at 8:40 p.m. EST. SWAS will gather star-formation data which have
remianed
invisible from beneath the obscuring effects of the Earth's atmosphere.

http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/smex/swas/

If any news releases are issued later today, summaries and Internet URLs will be
e-mailed to this list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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Video File for December 2, 1998

ITEM 1:STS-88 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION B-ROLL (re-play)
Footage includes mission animation detailing the orbital
mating of Unity and Zarya, completed Station animation,
spacewalkers training in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, past
spacewalks, and hardware preparation.
Contact at Johnson Space Center: James Hartsfield 281/483-5111
Contact at Headquarters: Dwayne Brown 202/358-1726

ITEM 2: STS-88 CREW INTERVIEWS (replay)

Contact at Johnson Space Center: Doug Peterson 281/483-5111

ITEM 3: NASA CAMERAS TO IMPROVE AIRCRAFT LANDING

EFFICIENCY (replay)
Air traffic controllers are now able to land aircraft more effeciently at San
Francisco International Airport thanks to new digital video cameras installed by
NASA at the San Carlos airport control tower, some 10 miles away.
Contact at Ames Research Center: Mike Mewhinney 650/604-3937
Contact at Headquarters: Mike Braukus 202/358-1979

ITEM 4 NASA NAMES ISS LABORATORY MODULE (replay)

Highlights of the ceremony where in Space Station Senior Managers unveiled
the name of the U.S. lab module.
Contact at Johnson Space Center: James Hartsfield 281/483-5111
Contact at Headquarters: Dwayne Brown 202/358-1726

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The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00
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.

Ray Castillo
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: 202/358-4555.

The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found at:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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CONTRACT AWARDS

NASA Selects Raytheon STX To Provide Goddard Support

NASA has selected Raytheon STX Corporation of Lanham, MD, to provide routine
data
operations, and research and development support for the Space Science Data
Operations Office and the National Space Science Data Center at the Foddard space
Flight Center

Contact at Headquarters: Don Savage 202/358-1547

Full text available at;
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/1998/c98-v.txt

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Engineering and Testing Support to be Supplied by International Space Station
Contract
Modification

NASA signed a contract modification with The Boeing Company, Houston, TX to

supply
additional engineering support and pre-launch testing for the International Space
Station,
increasing the prime space station contract held by Boeing by $163.4 million.

Contact at Headquarters: Jennifer McCarter 202-358-1639

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/1998/c98-u.txt

NASA contract awards are posted to:

http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html

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