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For Release: Sept. 28, 2000

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SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

ASTRONAUTS AND COSMONAUT NAMED TO FOUR SHUTTLE MISSIONS IN 2001

CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR AIRPORT SURFACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

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NEWS RELEASES

ASTRONAUTS AND COSMONAUT NAMED TO FOUR SHUTTLE MISSIONS IN 2001

A cadre of 20 astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has been

assigned to four Space Shuttle missions targeted for launches in
2001.

Two of the missions, STS-100 and STS-104, will continue the on-
orbit construction of the International Space Station (ISS). The
third, STS-107, will be dedicated to scientific research for the
U.S. and its international partners, while the fourth flight, STS-
109, will conduct the fourth scheduled servicing visit to the
Hubble Space Telescope.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne Brown

(Phone: 202/358-1726)
Contact at NASA ohnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Doug Peterson
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

For full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-154.txt

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CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR AIRPORT SURFACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS

NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, has awarded three

contracts to two companies for airport surface surveillance
systems that would help prevent runway accidents. Preventing
�runway incursions� is a top safety priority of the Federal
Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety
Board.
Two Airport Traffic Identification (ATIDS)/ Dynamic Runway
Occupancy Measurement Systems (DROMS) will be installed at Detroit
Metro Wayne International Airport and a DROMS will be installed at
Memphis International Airport as part of NASA's aviation systems
capacity program.

Sensis Corp., DeWitt, NY, and Rannoch, Corp., Alexandria, VA, have
each been selected to provide an ATIDS and a DROMS for evaluation
at Detroit. Sensis has been selected to provide the DROMS at
Memphis. The value of the contracts is approximately $1.8 million.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Michael Braukus

(Phone: 202/358-1979)
Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA: Michael
Finneran (Phone: 757/864-6124)

full text, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2000/c00-m.txt

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