NASA Daily News Summary 
For Release:  Oct. 12, 2000
Media Advisory m00-194


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  NASA MISSION MANAGERS TO DISCUSS SPACE STATION EXPEDITION



VIDEO    **ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  NO VIDEO FILE TODAY, OCT. 12, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



************ NEWS RELEASES ************


NASA MISSION MANAGERS TO DISCUSS SPACE STATION EXPEDITION

With the launch of the first resident crew to the International 
Space Station (ISS) scheduled for the end of the month, NASA 
managers will discuss details of the Expedition 1 mission in a 
pre-launch news conference on Wednesday, October 25 at 2 p.m. EDT 
at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.  The news conference 
will be broadcast on NASA Television with question and answer 
capability from NASA centers.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington DC:  Dwayne Brown 
202/385-1726
Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX:  Eileen Hawley 
281/483-5111

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-049.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



************ VIDEO FILE ************


THERE IS NO VIDEO FILE TODAY, OCT. 12, 2000 



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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 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.

During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television schedule can be 
found at the following web address: 
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html



************ UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ************


October 19, Thursday
- 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. - NASA Enterprise Research Outreach to 
  Universities - HQ (commercial satellite TBD)

October 22, Sunday
- 2:10 p.m. - STS-92 Landing - KSC

October 23, Monday
- 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. - Small Airplanes of Tomorrow Live News 
  Interviews - LaRC

October 25, Wednesday
- 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Expedition I Refresher Briefing - JSC
- 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Cassini/Galileo Look at Jupiter Live News 
  Interviews - JPL

October 26, Thursday
- 6:00 - 10:00 a.m. - Education Services Provided By NASA Website 
  'science.nasa.gov' Live News Interviews - MSFC
- 5:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Inspection 2000 Live News Interviews - JSC

October 27, Friday
- TBD - X-38 Flight Test - DFRC
- 4:30 - 9:00 p.m. - From the Outer Planets to the Inner Cities 
  Live News Interviews - JPL

October 29, Sunday
- TBD - Expedition I Crew Launch News Conference - Baikonur, 
  Kazakhstan (via JSC)

October 30, Monday
- 2:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition I Launch Coverage Begins - Baikonur, 
  Kazakhstan (via JSC)
- 3:16 a.m. - ISS Expedition I Launch - Baikonur, Kazakhstan (via 
  JSC)


During Space Shuttle missions, the NASA Television schedule can be 
found at the following web address: 
http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/tvsked/schedule.html

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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