NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: April 9, 1999
Media Advisory m99-070

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Summary

-- News Release: International Space Station Service Module Rollout Set
-- Video File for April 9

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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION SERVICE MODULE ROLLOUT SET

     The formal rollout and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 
Service Module element of the International Space Station will be 
held April 26 at RSC-Energia in Moscow. Top NASA, Russian Space Agency, 
RSC-Energia and European Space Agency space station officials will hold 
a press conference immediately before the rollout. News media 
representatives wishing to attend the activities, which begin at 9 a.m. 
Moscow time at GONTI Hall at RSC-Energia, must register by Monday, April 
12. The Service Module is scheduled to be launched later this year for 
linkup as the third element of the International Space Station. The news 
conference and ceremony will be recorded and replayed on NASA Television 
later in the day.

Contact at Headquarters: Debra Rahn, 202/358-1638;
Contacts at NASA Moscow Office: Carlos Fontanot or John Ira Petty, U.S. 
phone 256/961-6225.

Full text of the release:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-018.txt

If NASA issues any news releases later today, we will 
e-mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
     http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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Video File for April 9, 1999

ITEM 1 VIEWS OF MARS: MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES (REPLAY)
ITEM 2 LANDSAT: VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN CITY (REPLAY)
ITEM 3 SPECIAL FEED REQUEST: ASTRONAUT EILEEN COLLINS FOOTAGE
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ITEM 1 VIEWS OF MARS: MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR (REPLAY)
  ITEM 1A LAVA FLOW 
  This is the edge of a large lava flow southwest of the 
Arsia Mons volcano. The lava flow surface (upper portion of 
frame) is rough but covered with fine sand or dust. The 
ripples along the base of the lava flow margin are spaced 
about 50 feet apart and formed by wind. 

  ITEM 1B ANCIENT CRATERED SURFACE
  The view of cratered uplands on Mars shows an ancient, 
cratered surface covered by windblown dunes and ripples 
oriented in different directions.

  ITEM 1C OLYMPICA FOSSAE
  The Olympica Fossae, a collection of troughs and 
depressions, exemplify the range of landforms seen elsewhere 
on Mars. This picture shows many examples including layered 
outcrops in canyon walls, evenly spaced dunes on canyon 
floors, dark landslide streaks on the canyon walls, pits 
formed by ground collapse and streamlined forms related to 
the flow of water, mud or lava.

  ITEM 1D WALL OF TITHONIUM 
  Layers of wall rock, windblown drifts and landslide 
deposits can be seen in this new view of the wall of 
Tithonium Chasma in the Valles Marineris trough system. The 
picture covers an area 1.9 miles wide by about 6.8 miles 
long.

Contact at Headquarters: Doug Isbell 202/358-1753;
Contact at Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Mary Hardin, 818/354-
5011.

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ITEM 2 LANDSAT: VIEWS OF THE AMERICAN CITY (REPLAY)

  For more than 26 years, Landsat images have been used to 
help urban planners understand where growth is taking place 
and allow geographers to evaluate how different urban 
planning programs affect population growth and land use. 
Today's new images of twenty U.S. regions have been released 
to highlight the upcoming launch of the next generation Earth 
observing satellite - Landsat 7. The Landsat Thematic Mapper 
captured these images. Images includes the following regions 
(in order of appearance): Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, 
Dallas/Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami/Ft. 
Lauderdale, Minneapolis, New York City, Philadelphia, 
Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Sacramento, St. Louis, San 
Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC/Baltimore.

Contact at Headquarters: David Steitz, 202/358-1730;
Contact at Goddard Space Flight Center: Wade Sisler, 301/286-
6256.

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ITEM 3 SPECIAL FEED REQUEST: ASTRONAUT EILEEN COLLINS FOOTAGE
  Footage shows Collins suiting up, walking out and working in space 
during STS-63 and STS-84. Collins is the first woman assigned as a Space 
Shuttle Commander. She will command the crew of STS-93 aboard Space 
Shuttle Columbia July 1999.

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