NASA Daily News Summary
For Release: May 7, 1999
Media Advisory m99-092

Summary:

-- Video File for May 7, 1999

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Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:
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Video File for May 7, 1999

*Note: There will be a live feed of the Glenn Research Center Naming
Ceremony on NASA-TV today. Tune in at 2:15 p.m. for the ceremony, which
begins at about 2:30 p.m. Following the ceremony, B-Roll of the ceremony
will air at about 3:00 p.m., followed by the Video File.

ITEM 1 GLENN CENTER RENAMED (TRT 04:15)
ITEM 2 HUBBLE HERITAGE PICTURE: "POLAR-RING" GALAXY (TRT 00:51) (REPLAY)

Item 1 Glenn Center Renamed
     Today NASA will pay tribute to John Glenn, a symbol of the Agency's 
past, present and future, by renaming the Agency's Ohio center the John 
H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. Glenn and other Mercury 
astronauts trained at what is now the Glenn Research Center on the 
Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility (MASTIF), a three-axis gimbal 
rig simulating a tumbling spacecraft. Footage shows Glenn training 
on the MASTIF, as well as aerial shots of the Glenn Research Center and 
b-roll of astronaut Glenn from 1962 and 1998. 

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Michael Braukus, 202/358-1979;
Contact at Glenn: Lori Rachul, 216/433-8806. 

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Item 2 Hubble Heritage Picture: "Polar-ring" galaxy (replay)
     Located about 130 million light-years away, galaxy NGC 4650A is one 
of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure 
is not yet understood fully. One possibility is that polar rings are the 
remnants of collisions between two galaxies sometime in the distant 
past. During the collision the gas from a smaller galaxy would have been 
stripped off and captured by a larger galaxy, forming a new ring of 
dust, gas and stars, which orbit around the inner galaxy almost at right 
angles to the larger galaxy's disk.  This is the vertical polar ring, 
which we see almost edge-on in Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 
image of NGC 4560A, created using three different color filters.

For further information:
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/16/index.html

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Don Savage, 202/358-1727;
Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute: Ray Villard, 410/338-4514.
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