NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: October 15, 1998

Media Advisory 98-050

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

* Mercury and Gemini Diagrams and Technical Drawings On-Line

* NASA Contributes Technology to War on Cancer

* NASA Video File for Oct. 15, 1998

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MERCURY AND GEMINI DIAGRAMS AND TECHNICAL DRAWINGS ON-LINE

The NASA History Office has posted a new website with

diagrams and technical drawings from Projects Mercury and
Gemini, the first two major NASA human spaceflight programs.

The Mercury diagrams are available at:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/mercury.ht
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The Gemini diagrams are available at:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/diagrams/gemini.htm
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NASA CONTRIBUTES TECHNOLOGY TO WAR ON CANCER

In observance of October as Breast Cancer Awareness

Month, NASA will release information on new ways aerospace
research and technology is helping in the understanding,
detection and treatment of all types of cancer.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Terri Hudkins,

202/358-1977.

Full text available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-062.txt

Note to Subscribers: A resource list for this story was

appended to the news summary dated Oct. 1, 1998.

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If any more 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 OCT. 15, 1998

NOTE: TODAY'S VIDEO FILE WILL RUN AT ODD TIMES:

11:45 AM AND 3:15 PM. ALSO, TODAY'S BRIEFING
 WILL REPLAY AFTER 4 PM EDT. PLEASE WATCH NASA TV
FOR DETAILS.

Item 1: A Sampling STS-95 Experiments

B-roll and animation illustrating a sampling of the
science experiments on STS-95, including: Roaches in space,
Seeds in Space, the Artificial Heart, the Spartan Spacecraft,
and new Hubble Telescope equipment.
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:
Wade Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne Brown
202/358-1726 and Don Savage 202/358-1727.

Item 2: Glenn History And Training B-Roll (Replay)

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX: Eileen
Hawley 281/483-5111;
contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Ray Castillo
202/358-4555.

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The NASA Video File airs at noon, 3, 6, 9 p.m. and midnight

Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray
Castillo, 202/358-4555.

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.

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 contract awards are posted to:

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

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