NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Nov. 16, 1998

Media Advisory 98-76

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

* Weiler Named Associate Administrator for Space Science

* Zarya Briefings and Launch Coverage Set
* Third U.S. Space Station Assembly Crew Named

* NASA Video File for Nov. 16, 1998

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WEILER NAMED ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR SPACE SCIENCE

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today named Dr.

Edward J. Weiler as Associate Administrator for NASA's Office
of Space Science, effective immediately. Weiler has served
as acting Associate Administrator since Sept. 28, following
the departure of Dr. Wesley T. Huntress, Jr.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Douglas

Isbell/Don Savage 202/358-1547.

Full text available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-204.txt

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ZARYA BRIEFINGS AND LAUNCH COVERAGE SET

The launch of the first component of the new

International Space Station, the Russian-built, U.S.-owned
Zarya Control Module, will be the subject of preflight
briefings at the Russian Mission Control Center in Korolev,
Russia--outside Moscow--at 8:00 a.m. EST (4:00 p.m. Moscow
time) on Nov. 17. The news conference will take place just
three days before Zarya is scheduled to be launched atop a
Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakstan. The news conference will be broadcast live on
NASA Television, but questions can only be asked by reporters
at the Russian Mission Control Center.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Debra J. Rahn
256-961-6226; in Russia 586-75-60

Contact at NASA Moscow Office: Kyle Herring 256/961-6225.

Full text available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-069.txt

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THIRD U.S. SPACE STATION ASSEMBLY CREW NAMED

Astronaut James D. Halsell, Jr. (Lieutenant Col., USAF)

will command the third Space Shuttle mission to carry cargo
to space for the International Space Station in August 1999.
Joining Halsell in the flight deck for mission STS-101 aboard
Atlantis will be Pilot Scott J. Horowitz, Ph.D. (Lieutenant
Col., USAF). Rounding out the crew are Mission Specialists
Mary Ellen Weber, Ph.D.; Edward Tsang Lu, Ph.D.; and Jeffrey
N. Williams (Lieutenant Col., USA). As the third
International Space Station assembly flight, the mission will
carry internal logistics and resupply cargo for station
operations. The equipment will further the outfitting of the
Russian Service Module.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Jennifer

McCarter 202/358-1639.

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Doug

Peterson 281/483-5111.

Full text available at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-205.txt

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If additional 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 NOV. 16, 1998

ITEM 1: STARDUST MISSION TO HARVEST COMET DUST
The Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission, scheduled for
launch on Feb. 6, 1999, from Cape Canaveral, FL, will meet up
with Comet Wild 2 ("Vilt-2"), fly through the cloud of gases
and dust around the head of the comet, and collect particles
flying off the nucleus. The particles will be captured in
aerogel, an exotic, jelly-like glass. In 2006, the Stardust
samples will parachute to Earth in a clamshell-like reentry
capsule and come to rest at a pre-selected spot in the Utah
desert. The tiny particles Stardust brings back will reveal
ingredients from the original recipe that made the planets.

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:

Mary Beth Murrill 818/354-5011.

Contact at NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL: George Diller

407/867-2468.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug Isbell

202/358-1753.

ITEM 2: NASA STUDYING LEONID METEOR STORM (replay)

Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA:

Kathleen Burton 650/604-9000.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage

202/358-1727.

ITEM 3: BREAST CANCER DETECTION BY SMART PROBE (replay)

Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA:

John Bluck 650-604-5026.

Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Terri Hudkins

202/358-1977 or Mike Braukus 202/358/1979.

ITEM 4: VIRTUAL SCALPEL: PRACTICE FOR SURGERY (replay)

Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA:

John Bluck 650-604-5026.
Contacts at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Terri Hudkins
202/358-1977 or Mike Braukus 202/358/1979.

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The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00
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.

Ray Castillo
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: 202/358-4555.

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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