October 9, 1998

Jennifer McCarter
Headquarters, Washington DC
(Phone: 202/358-1639)

Eileen Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
(Phone: 281/483-5111)

Release: N98-66

New Shuttle Press Kit Makes Online Debut

The STS-95 press kit is now online, inaugurating a new service that will enable members of the news media and the public to obtain access to each mission's information earlier and with more detail than ever before.

The press kit can be accessed on the World-Wide Web at:

www.shuttlepresskit.com.

The menu of options available includes a mission profile; mission summary; flight plan; objectives and experiment information; crew information; payloads and links to other related websites; as well as a variety of other items. Each option on the menu contains a number of sub-topics and links to other related NASA sites, creating the most comprehensive press kit ever offered by NASA and its contractor partners.

The new online press kit was a collaborative effort between NASA, United Space Alliance and Boeing North American.

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