Debra J. Rahn
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                          
June 3, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-8455)


RELEASE:  9l-47

NASA TO FEATURE SPACE STATION FREEDOM AT PARIS AIR SHOW


     The Space Station Freedom will highlight the NASA exhibit 
at the 39th Paris Air Show, Le Bourget, France, June l3-23.  
The centerpiece of the 7,000 sq. ft. exhibit will be a full 
scale mock-up of a Space Station Freedom module.  

     Visitors will enter a module that combines the space 
station's habitat and laboratory facilities into one.  They 
will view the crew quarters, the personal hygiene and exercise 
facilities and the galley.  In the laboratory portion, there 
will be a furnace facility, protein crystal growth facility, 
modular containerless processing, life support system "salad 
machine" and gas grain simulation facility on display. 

     Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency are partners 
with NASA in Space Station Freedom. 

     Other NASA programs featured in the exhibit are Mission 
to Planet Earth and  aeronautics research.  The NASA exhibit 
also will commemorate 30 years of manned U.S. space flight 
with a large mural at the exhibit's entrance. 

     On June 14, 1:00 p.m., NASA Deputy Administrator J.R. 
Thompson will hold a press briefing in the U.S. Pavilion.  On 
June 17, 1:00 p.m. Astronaut Daniel C. Brandenstein, Chief, 
Astronaut Office and Commander of the first Endeavour Space 
Shuttle mission and Astronaut John M. "Mike" Lounge, Chief, Space 
Station Support Office, Flight Crew Operations Directorate, will 
meet the press in the U.S. Pavilion.

     NASA has been a major participant at the Paris Air Show 
since the mid-l960s.  

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