Barbara Schwartz March 17, 1993
RELEASE No. 93-021
STS-56 SPACE SHUTTLE PREFLIGHT MISSION BRIEFINGS SET
The STS-56 preflight briefings will be held March 19 at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, building 2, room 135. A segment of the mission overview and the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS) briefing will originate from the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. Reporters may cover the briefings at NASA Headquarters or other NASA centers.
ATLAS 2 is the second in a series of Space Shuttle flights to track subtle, year-to-year variations in the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere and the sun's energy output. Its highly calibrated instruments also will provide a check on data from several free-flying satellites. Atlas 1 flew aboard STS-45 in March 1992. STS-56 also will deploy SPARTAN 201, a free-flying satellite to study the sun's corona and the solar wind.
All briefings will be carried on NASA Select television with two-way audio for questions from participating NASA locations. NASA Select programming is
carried on SATCOM F2R, transponder 13, located at 72 degrees west longitude.
A briefing agenda is attached.
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March 19, 1993Time (CST) Briefing Moderator
8:30 a.m. Mission Overview James Hartsfield
Chuck Shaw, Lead Flight Director (JSC)
Teresa Vanhooser Jim Sahli
(MSFC)
9:30 Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications Jim Sahli
and Science (MSFC)
Dr. Timothy Miller, Mission Science
Dr. Michael Gunson, Atmospheric Science
10:35 SPARTAN James Hartsfield
Jack Pownell, NASA Mission Manager (JSC)
Richard Fisher, Principal Investigator
White Light Coronagraph
John Kohl, Principal Investigator
Ultraviolet Coronal Spectrometer
11:10 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiments James Hartsfield
Briefer TBD (JSC)
11:40 Lunch
1:00 p.m. Department of Defense Experiments James Hartsfield
Overview (JSC)
Capt. David B. Goldstein, USAF
STS-56 DOD Payload Mission Manager
HERCULES (Earth-targeting camera)
Capt. John Hennessey, USAF
HERCULES Project Manager
Space Tissue Loss
Col. William P. Wiesmann, M.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
2:00 STS-56 Crew Briefing Barbara Schwartz
Ken Cameron, Commander (JSC)
Steve Oswald, Pilot
Ken Cockrell, Mission Specialist
Mike Foale, Mission Specialist
Ellen Ochoa, Mission Specialist
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