NASA Daily News Summary 
For Release:  Oct. 17, 2000
Media Advisory m00-197


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES


  UNIQUE NASA-UNIVERSITY CYBER CONFERENCE SCHEDULED THURSDAY



VIDEO    **ALL TIMES EASTERN***


  NO VIDEO FILE TODAY, OCT. 17, 2000

  UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS



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



UNIQUE NASA-UNIVERSITY CYBER CONFERENCE SCHEDULED THURSDAY

     NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin hosts a new higher-
education initiative Oct. 19 as part of a unique live cyber 
conference originating from Headquarters in Washington, DC.

The program, moderated by Gen. Spence Armstrong, Senior Advisor to 
the Administrator, is designed to strengthen the Agency's 
partnerships with the nation's universities and colleges, and will 
originate from the James E. Webb auditorium from 1 to 4 p.m. EDT.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington DC:  Jim Cast (Phone: 
202/385-1779)
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Randall Correll 
(Phone: 202/358-2007)

For full text see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-050.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. 17, 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.

****Note:**** 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/University Cyber Conference- HQ (GE 3 
(Ku Band) Transponder 17, Audio Subcarrier 6.2/6.8 megahertz)

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



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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