NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: July 7, 1999

Media Advisory m99-136

Summary:

-- Upcoming Live Event:

tomorrow, July 8--Space Science Update: Historic Glenn
Mission Helps Explain Solar Mystery

-- Video File for July 7

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July 8 Space Science Update: Historic Glenn Mission Helps

Explain Solar Mystery

Coordinated observations by two spacecraft during John

Glenn's return to space have provided a surprising
explanation for a persistent solar mystery: Why does the
high-speed solar wind race away from the Sun twice as fast as
expected? The discovery will be the subject of a Space
Science Update press briefing at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday,
July 8, in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters, 300 E St. SW, Washington, DC.

Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug

Isbell/Don Savage 202/358-1547.
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:
Bill Steigerwald 301/286-5017.

Full text of the release:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-038.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 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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 Note: Today's Video File will air on the regular
schedule at the conclusion of today's live STS-93 Crew Press
Conference, scheduled to run from 2:00 pm to approximately
4:00 pm EDT

Video File for July 7, 1999

Item 1 - STS-93 Mission Animation TRT - 5:15

Compilation of computer animation used during the STS-93
mission overview briefing.
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Kyle
Herring 281/483-5111.

Item 2 - Chandra Hardware B-roll and Animation

a - Astronauts at Telescope Assembly TRT - 3:28

Astronauts from the STS-93 crew visit the Chandra Telescope
assembly.

b - Chandra Readied for shipping TRT - 1:42

Chandra is bagged, put in a shipping container and readied
for shipping to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

c - Chandra IUS arrival TRT - 1:11

Footage shows the Chandra X-ray telescope mating with the IUS

d - Mirror Comparison TRT - :37

Animation shows the refraction properties of the Chandra X-
ray telescope. X-rays that strike a mirror head-on are
absorbed. X-rays that hit a mirror at grazing angles are
reflected like a pebble skipping across a pond. Thus, X-ray
telescope mirrors are shaped like barrels rather than dishes.

e - Deep Space Network TRT - :14

Animation shows the communication path between the satellite
and the AXAF Science Center in Cambridge, MA. This
communication is via NASA's Deep Space Network.

f - Light Path TRT - :25

X-ray photons entering the telescope are reflected at grazing
angles and focussed onto an electronic detector to make an
image of a cosmic source.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Donald Savage
202/358-1727.
Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL:
Dave Drachlis 256/544-6538.

Item 3 - Apollo 11 History B-roll TRT - 18:42 (replay)

a - The Apollo 11 Mission: Prior to Flight TRT - 5:47

Clips show various aspects of the Apollo 11 mission that sent
Astronauts Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Ed "Buzz"
Aldrin to the Moon. The first set of clips includes the
following:
Crew photo
Mission simulator
LEM flight tests
Suit-up
Walkout

b - The Apollo 11 Mission: Liftoff TRT - 5:44

Footage includes:
Saturn V liftoff
First and second stage separation
Crew enroute to Moon
Views of Earth from the Command module

c - The Apollo 11 Mission: On the Moon TRT - 1:27

Footage includes:
Lunar views
LEM separates from command module
LEM descends to the Moon
Earth views

d - The Apollo 11 Mission: From the Moon back to Earth

TRT - 4:22
Footage includes:
Armstrong steps on the Moon
Walking on Moon
Planting flag on Moon
Crew retrieval from ocean and quarantine

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Ray Castillo

202/358-4555.
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