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For Release: Oct. 6, 1999
Media Advisory m99-206a


Summary:

HEAD OF MARS CLIMATE ORBITER INVESTIGATION BOARD NAMED

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HEAD OF MARS CLIMATE ORBITER INVESTIGATION BOARD NAMED

NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin today named Arthur 
G. Stephenson, director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight 
Center, Huntsville, AL, to be the head of the Mars Climate 
Orbiter Mission Failure Investigation Board.  The investigation 
board will look independently into all aspects of the failure of 
the mission, which was lost Sept. 23 as the spacecraft was 
entering orbit around Mars.  The Board will report its initial 
findings to NASA Headquarters by Nov. 3, 1999.  Other members of 
the board will be established shortly.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Douglas Isbell 
Phone:  202/358-1547.

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-117.txt

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