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NEWS RELEASES


  ASTRONAUTS AND COSMONAUT NAMED TO FOUR SHUTTLE MISSIONS IN 2001

  CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR AIRPORT SURFACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS 



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NEWS RELEASES


ASTRONAUTS AND COSMONAUT NAMED TO FOUR SHUTTLE MISSIONS IN 2001

     A cadre of 20 astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut has been 
assigned to four Space Shuttle missions targeted for launches in 
2001. 

Two of the missions, STS-100 and STS-104, will continue the on-
orbit construction of the International Space Station (ISS). The 
third, STS-107, will be dedicated to scientific research for the 
U.S. and its international partners, while the fourth flight, STS-
109, will conduct the fourth scheduled servicing visit to the 
Hubble Space Telescope.

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

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-154.txt



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CONTRACTS AWARDED FOR AIRPORT SURFACE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS 

NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, has awarded three 
contracts to two companies for airport surface surveillance 
systems that would help prevent runway accidents. Preventing 
³runway incursions² is a top safety priority of the Federal 
Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety 
Board. 

Two Airport Traffic Identification (ATIDS)/ Dynamic Runway 
Occupancy Measurement Systems (DROMS) will be installed at Detroit 
Metro Wayne International Airport and a DROMS will be installed at 
Memphis International Airport as part of NASA's aviation systems 
capacity program.

Sensis Corp., DeWitt, NY, and Rannoch, Corp., Alexandria, VA, have 
each been selected to provide an ATIDS and a DROMS for evaluation 
at Detroit. Sensis has been selected to provide the DROMS at 
Memphis. The value of the contracts is approximately $1.8 million.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Michael Braukus 
(Phone:  202/358-1979)
Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA:  Michael 
Finneran (Phone:  757/864-6124)

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



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