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For Release: June 16, 2000

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SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

NASA AND CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS OPEN NEW AERONAUTICS CLASSROOM

VIRTUAL YOU -- OR HOW TO WORK IN YOUR 'JAMMIES'

NASA AWARDS NASA LAUNCH SERVICES CONTRACTS

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NASA AND CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS OPEN NEW AERONAUTICS CLASSROOM

The exciting world of science and technology will spring to

life at Los Angeles Southwest College's new Aeronautics Education
Laboratory. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin and Congresswoman Maxine
Waters, along with Astronaut Yvonne Cagle, other NASA officials,
and staff from Los Angeles Southwest College will open the lab
doors today at a dedication ceremony on the campus of Los Angeles
Southwest College.

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-093.txt

NASA Headquarters Contact: Sonja Alexander (Phone: 202/358-1761)

Glenn Research Center contact: Lori Rachul (Phone: 216/433-2901)

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VIRTUAL YOU -- OR HOW TO WORK IN YOUR 'JAMMIES'

Think you must dress for success even in the bold new world of
telecommuting? Maybe not, even if your employer has a videophone to display your
image. A digital human-image animation computer system under development at
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can use the smallest units
of speech, called phonemes, to manipulate a person's facial movements in an
image. While development is in the early stages at this point, the eventual
result will be photo-realistic animation of a person speaking.

Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-094.txt

NASA Headquarters Contact: Michael Braukus (Phone: 202/358-1979)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory contacts: Nancy Lovato, (818) 354-6278; Carolina

Martinez, (818) 354-9382

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NASA AWARDS NASA LAUNCH SERVICES CONTRACTS

NASA today announced the awards for the NASA Launch Services
(NLS) contracts, which will provide a broad range of launch
services for NASA planetary, earth-observing and scientific
payloads. NASA selected both Boeing Delta Launch Services, Inc. and
Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, Inc. for award of an
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract with a minimum of
one launch service to each contractor, spanning a 10-year period.

Full text:

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

NASA Headquarters Contact: Kirsten Williams (Phone: 202/358-0243)

Kennedy Space Center Contact: Bruce Buckingham (Phone: 407/867-2468)

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VIDEO:

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html

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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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