For Release: July 18, 1996
Catherine E. Watson
(804) 864-6122
Release No. 96-119
Note to Editors:
Briefing on Two Joint U.S./Russian Space Projects
Researchers at NASA Langley will discuss two joint U.S./Russian
space projects at 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 23 at the H.J.E. Reid
Conference Center, 14 Langley Blvd. The projects are the
Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III
(SAGE III) that will fly aboard a Russian meteorological
spacecraft in August 1998, and the Mir Environmental Effects
Payload
(MEEP) that is attached to the Russian space station
Mir.
The SAGE III instrument is the third in a series of NASA Langley
stratospheric profilers. The SAGE II instrument, the precursor to
SAGE III, has been measuring stratospheric aerosols and ozone since
1984 and continues to provide important atmospheric data to
scientists world-wide. SAGE II has been used to measure the decline
in the amount of stratospheric ozone over the Antarctic since the
ozone hole was first noted in 1985.
Atlantis (STS-76) astronauts attached the four MEEP experiment
containers to the Mir shuttle docking module in April. MEEP is
exposing selected and proposed international space station
materials to the effects of space and orbital debris. MEEP will
remain attached to Mir until late 1997, when the four experiment
containers will be retrieved by another space shuttle crew (STS-86)
and returned to Earth for study.
Media wishing to attend the briefing should call Catherine
Watson at (804) 864-6122.
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