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For Release:  May 9, 2000
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FLIGHT CREW NAMED FOR FUTURE SPACE STATION MISSION 

NASA CENTER TO PROCURE LANDFILL GAS FOR USE IN HEATING PLANT



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FLIGHT CREW NAMED FOR FUTURE SPACE STATION MISSION 

Veteran astronaut James D. Wetherbee (Capt., USN) will command the 
eighth Space Shuttle mission to visit the International Space 
Station on a flight in 2001 to rotate space station crews and 
continue space station assembly.  Joining Wetherbee on the flight 
deck for STS-102 aboard Discovery will be Pilot James M. Kelly 
(Lt. Col., USAF).  Rounding out the crew are Mission Specialists 
Andy Thomas, Ph.D., Paul Richards, and previously assigned space 
station Expedition 2 crew members, Yuri V. Usachev, James S. Voss 
(Col., USA, Ret.) and Susan J. Helms (Col., USAF).

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington DC:  Dwayne Brown 
(Phone:  202/358-1726).
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX:  Doug Peterson 
(Phone:  281/483-5111).

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-078.txt



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NASA CENTER TO PROCURE LANDFILL GAS FOR USE IN HEATING PLANT

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, will burn 
landfill gas to heat its buildings under a new contract awarded 
today.  "This project will prevent as much pollution as planting 
68,000 acres of trees or removing 100,000 cars from Maryland 
highways by reducing harmful gases produced at the Center and the 
landfill.  As an added benefit, we expect significant savings over 
our current gas and fuel oil costs.  Further savings will be 
realized in the future if the Center expands the project to 
include alternate fuel for our vehicles," said Barry Green, 
Goddard energy manager.  The sole-source contract was awarded to 
Toro Energy of Maryland, LLC, Dallas, TX, for utility service of 
landfill gas.  

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Sonja Alexander 
(Phone:  202/358-1761).
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD:  Jim 
Sahli (Phone: 301/286-0697).

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/contract/2000/c00-d.txt


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