NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: September  25, 1998
Media Advisory 98-37

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

NASA Video File for Sept. 25, 1998

Upcoming Live Events:
   Undersea Challenge Mission, Sept. 23-30
   Space Science Update: Gamma Rays Striking Earth, Sept. 29
   Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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No news releases have been issued today. If any are issued 
later, 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 September 25, 1998


ITEM 1:	TESTING MAGNETIC LEVITATION TECHNOLOGY
	Footage shows scientists testing magnetic levitation 
(Maglev) technology; broll also includes footage of a roller 
coaster and animation depicts a future launch system.  A 
Maglev launch system would electromagnetically drive a 
spacecraft down a track similar to a high speed train track 
and a roller coaster.  The vehicle would catapult from the 
ground at 600 miles per hour and then shift to a rocket 
engine to reach orbit.
Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center:  June Malone 
256/544-7061.

ITEM 2:    HURRICANE GEORGES - 3-D TRMM ANIMATION
    This video sequence of Hurricane Georges as it approaches 
the Florida coast-line was taken on September 24 at 2:30 pm 
EDT by the TRMM spacecraft.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center:  Alan Kennitzer 
301/286-2806; contact at Headquarters:  Dave Steitz 202/358-
1730.

ITEM 3:    HURRICANE GEORGES - GOES-8 IMAGE
	New 3-dimensional video of Hurricane Georges taken by 
NOAA's GOES-8 satellite on 9/24/98 - 9/25/98.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center:  Alan Kennitzer 
301/286-2806; contact at Headquarters:  Dave Steitz 202/358-
1730.

ITEM 4:    HURRICANE GEORGES - GOES-8 IMAGE
	Images of Hurricane Georges taken by NOAA's GOES-8 
satellite on 9/24/98.
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center:  Alan Kennitzer 
301/286-2806; contact at Headquarters:  Dave Steitz 202/358-
1730.

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The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found at: 

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Upcoming Live Events

GOING "ALL OUT" UNDER WATER

     NASA's Life Sciences Division is sponsoring the 
Challenge Mission, an eight-day 
deployment of the Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station on the 
sea floor off Key Largo, 
Sep. 23-30. 

Contact:  Jennifer McCarter, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, 
202/358-1639. 

Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-056.txt

RECENT WAVE OF STELLAR RADIATION TO BE DISCUSSED

       The next Space Science Update, scheduled for 2 p.m. 
EDT, Tuesday, Sept. 29, will feature discussion of an intense 
wave of gamma rays that struck Earth's atmosphere on August 
27, 1998, from a mysterious super-magnetic star 20,000 light 
years away. Contact: Donald Savage NASA Headquarters (Phone:  
202/358-1547); Tim Tyson, Marshall Space Flight Center, 
(Phone:  256/544-0994)

Full text of Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-61.txt


CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

     NASA will brief industry and the public-at-large on 
progress in meeting its aeronautics goals at the first 
conference of this kind to be held Friday, Oct. 9, 1998, at 
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

Contacts:  Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, 202/358-1979; Lori 
Rachul, NASA Lewis Research Center, 216/433-8806.

For the full text of this Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-054.txt

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