NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: September  30, 1998
Media Advisory 98-40

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

NASA Turns 40 on Thursday

NASA Video File for Sept. 30, 1998

Upcoming Live Events:
   Aeronautics Conference, Oct. 9

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NASA TURNS 40 ON THURSDAY

On Thursday, October 1, at 2 p.m. EDT, Administrator Daniel Goldin will kick off NASA's fortieth anniversary celebration with an address to all employees from the NASA Headquarters auditorium.  He will be joined by Susan Eisenhower, President of Eisenhower Inc. and a visiting fellow at Harvard University.  The program will be carried live on NASA Television. Contact: Ray Castillo, NASA Headquarters (Phone:  202/358-4555). Full text:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1998/98-174.txt

If any more news releases are issued 
later, summaries and Internet URLs will be e-mailed to this 
list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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Video File for September 30, 1998


ITEM 1:    MAGNETAR ILLUMINATES EARTH (replay)
Contact at Marshall Space Flight Center:  Tim Tyson 256/544-
0994; contact at Headquarters:  Don Savage 202/358-1727.

ITEM 2:    ATLANTIS RETURNS TO KSC (replay)
Contact at Kennedy Space Center:  Joel Wells 407/867-2468.

ITEM 3:    JOHN GLENN AND STS-95 CREW TRAINING (replay)
Contact at Johnson Space Center:  Eileen Hawley 281/483-5111; 
contact at Headquarters:  Ray Castillo 202/358-4555.

The NASA Video File airs at noon, 3, 6, 9 p.m. and midnight 
Eastern time. For further information, please contact Ray 
Castillo, 202/358-4555. 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.

The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found at: 

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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Upcoming Live Events

CONFERENCE TO REVIEW PROGRESS OF AERONAUTICS PROGRAM

     NASA will brief industry and the public-at-large on 
progress in meeting its aeronautics goals at the first 
conference of this kind to be held Friday, Oct. 9, 1998, at 
NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH.

Contacts:  Michael Braukus, NASA HQ, 202/358-1979; Lori 
Rachul, NASA Lewis Research Center, 216/433-8806.

For the full text of this Note to Editors:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1998/n98-054.txt

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CONTRACT AWARDS

NASA contract awards are posted to:

http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html

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