Michael Braukus
Headquarters, Washington, DC                    February 25, 1998
(Phone: 202/358-1979)


NOTE TO EDITORS:  N98-21

NASA SPONSORS SPACE STATION BUSINESS VIDEOCONFERENCE
 
     NASA's International Space Station Program is sponsoring a 
live, interactive, 
2-hour telecast on Thursday, Feb. 26, 1998, from 1 - 3 p.m. EST.  
The program, called "Open for Business," will give research and 
business professionals an inside look at the areas of scientific 
and commercial research being pursued on the station.

     The International Space Station, scheduled to begin assembly 
this year, will be a world-class research laboratory enabling 
long-term research in the nearly gravity-free environment of 
space.  

     The program will feature briefings on how space station 
research can advance the fields of biotechnology, materials 
processing and agriculture.  Participants also will learn more 
about space-based research plans, benefits and opportunities. 

     Viewers will be placed in touch with a panel of NASA experts, 
university and commercial researchers, and investors, who will 
take questions regarding the commercial possibilities aboard the 
space station.

     "Open for Business" will be viewed by a national audience via 
satellite downlink at more than 600 sites.  To find a downlink 
site near you, go to the PBS Web site at:

         http://www.pbs.org/als/programs/live

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