NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: May 18, 2000

Media Advisory m00-99

SUMMARY

NEWS RELEASES

None today

VIDEO

***ALL TIMES EASTERN***

VIDEO FILE FOR MAY 18, 2000

ITEM 1 - B-ROLL FOR STS-101 LIVE SHOTS - HQ

ITEM 2 - TERRA CAPTURES PORTRAIT OF EARTH'S HEAT BALANCE -
GSFC (REPLAY)
ITEM 3 - OLYMPIC TORCH TRAVELS TO SPACE WITH STS-101 (REPLAY)
ITEM 4 - STS-101 CREW TRAINING AND ANIMATION - (REPLAY)
ITEM 5 - FIDO ROVER - JPL (REPLAY)

UPCOMING LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS

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NEWS RELEASES

None today

For full text, see:

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

LIVE TELEVISION COMING UP THIS WEEK

May 18, Thursday

- *Midnight - 1:00 a.m. - The Future of Aviation Hearing Before
the House Tranportation and Infrastructure Committee,
Subcommittee on Aviation (recorded on 5/16/00) - HQ
- 9:00 a.m. - STS-101 L-1 Countdown Status Briefing/ISS Status
Briefing - KSC
- *11:00 - Noon - Administrator Goldin's Speech to the Virginia
Biotechnology Research Park (recorded on 5/15) - HQ
- *1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Administrator Goldin's Speech to the
Virginia Biotechnology Research Park (recorded on 5/15) - HQ
- *4:00 - 9:00 p.m. - STS-101 Launch Pad Shot - KSC
- *10:00 - 11:00 p.m. - Administrator Goldin's Speech to the
Virginia Biotechnology Research Park (recorded on 5/15) - HQ

May 19, Friday

- *1:00 a.m. - STS-101 Launch Coverage and Commentary Begins - KSC
- 6:12 a.m. - STS-101 Launch - KSC

For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see

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

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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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