For Release: October 1, 1997
Michael Finneran
(757) 864-6121
Catherine Watson
(281) 483-5111 [Oct. 1-6]
RELEASE NO. 97-117
NASA TV will carry mission briefing
LANGLEY EXPERIMENT TO BE RETRIEVED FROM MIR TODAY
Langley's Greg Stover, of the Space Projects Office, will
participate in the NASA Mission Status Briefing on NASA TV on
Wednesday, Oct. 1, at 9:15 p.m. Eastern time. Stover is the project
manager for the Langley payload on Mir called the Mir Environmental
Effects Payload
(MEEP).
MEEP will be retrieved from the Russian space station and placed
aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis for return to Earth. The Extra
Vehicular Activity to retrieve MEEP is also scheduled for 2:44 to
7:34 p.m. Wednesday, October 1.
NASA Television is available on GE-2, transponder 9C at 85
degrees West longitude, with vertical polarization. Frequency is on
3880.0 megahertz, with audio on 6.8 megahertz.
For more information, call Michael Finneran at (757) 864-6121 or
Catherine Watson at (281) 483-5111.
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