NASA Daily News Summary 
For Release:  August 15, 2000
Media Advisory m00-157


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  DEEP SPACE 1 SPACECRAFT KEEPS GOING... AND GOING... 



VIDEO     ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 15, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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NEWS RELEASES


     It has the little engine that could, and the pint-
sized power plant on board NASA's Deep Space 1 probe has 
been doing it longer and more efficiently than anything 
ever launched. The spacecraft, designed to test new 
technologies, has run its unique propulsion system for more 
than 200 days (4800 hours). 

     "The ion propulsion engine on Deep Space 1 has now 
accumulated more operating time in space than any other 
propulsion system in the history of the space program," 
said John Brophy, manager of the NASA Solar Electric 
Propulsion Technology Applications Readiness project, at 
the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, 
CA. 


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Donald Savage 
(Phone:  202/358-1547)
Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA:  Martha 
Heil (Phone:  818/354-0850)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-125.txt



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If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will e-
mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html



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VIDEO FILE FOR AUGUST 15, 2000


***BREAKING NEWS***
    ITEM 1 - Satellite Views of Idaho and Montana Fires
BREAKING NEWS FOR EVENING PRODUCERS: Video showing Dense smoke 
plumes drift over Idaho and Montana 

    ITEM 2 - EARLY IMAGES FROM SAFARI MISSION - GSFC   
             ITEM 2a - NASA RESEARCHERS IN AFRICA
             ITEM 2b - ER-2 AIRCRAFT
             ITEM 2c - AERIALS
             ITEM 2d - SWAP INTERVIEW EXCERPTS 
             ITEM 2e - HOBBS INTERVIEW EXCERPTS
    ITEM 3 - SCIENTISTS TO BEGIN STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN 
             ENVIRONMENT WITH SAFARI MISSION - GSFC (REPLAY)  
    ITEM 4 - VAB - "SAFE HAVEN" FOR SPACE SHUTTLES - KSC (REPLAY) 
    ITEM 5 - VIDEO GAME FOR ADD KIDS - LARC (REPLAY) 
    ITEM 6 - DEEP SPACE 1 ANIMATION



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ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO 
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT 

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm
and midnight Eastern Time.



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UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS


August 16, Wednesday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Video Game Technology Helps Children with 
  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Live News Interviews -
  LaRC
- 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. - Video Game Technology Helps Children with 
  Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Live News Interviews -
  LaRC

August 17, Thursday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Chandra's First Anniversary Live News 
  Interviews - MSFC
- 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. STS 106 TCDT Q&A


For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html



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Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

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.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will
continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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