Terri Sindelar                            
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                   
(Phone:  202/453-8400)                              April 2, 1990


RELEASE:  90-48

NASA ADMINISTRATOR INVITES LOCAL STUDENTS TO SHUTTLE LAUNCHES


     NASA Administrator Richard H. Truly today launched a new 
education program called "STAR 21 Project."  Under the project, 
two students - "NASA Stars" - and one educator from a 
Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area school district will