JSC TO OFFER OPEN HOUSE PREVIEW



August 24, 1998



John Ira Petty
Johnson Space Center, TX
(281/483-5111)

<h4>Release: J98-39</h4> <h3>JSC to Offer Open House Preview</h3> 

News media representatives are invited to a preview of the Johnson 
Space Center&rsquo;s 1998 Open House on Friday, Aug. 28. The Open 
House, which is free and open to the public, will be held the 
following day, Saturday, Aug. 29.



The preview, which will include stops at the Space Flight Food 
Facility, the Apollo Mission Control Room and mockups of the space 
shuttle and International Space Station, will begin about 8 a.m., 
following the Ballunar Liftoff Festival&rsquo;s press event at JSC 
earlier that morning.



Media representatives will have the opportunity to preview the 
Ballunar event, which runs from Aug. 28 to Aug. 30, and then visit a 
few of the exhibits and displays being set up for JSC&rsquo;s Open 
House in 20 of the center&rsquo;s buildings. Most of those buildings 
are open to the public only during Open House. In 1997, the event 
drew more than 70,000 people.



Please call the JSC newsroom at 281/483-5111 by noon Aug. 27 to make 
arrangements to attend or for further information.

	
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