NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  Mar. 27, 2000
Media Advisory m00-59


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES:

None Today.



VIDEO:

VIDEO FILE:

ITEM 1 - ISS OVERVIEW BRIEFING AND STS-101 ANIMATION AND TRAINING 
         B-ROLL - JSC
ITEM 2 - STS-96 MISSION HIGHLIGHTS, B-ROLL OF SERVICE MODULE 
         (replay)
ITEM 3 - IMAGE LAUNCH AND PRE-FLIGHT ANIMATION (replay) 
ITEM 4 - NEW COOL FLIGHT SUIT - DFRC


LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK



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LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK

March 27, Monday
STS-101 L-14 PreFlight Press Briefings
- 9:00 a.m. - International Space Station Overview - JSC
- 10:00 a.m. - STS-101 Mission Overview - JSC
- 11:00 a.m. - STS-101 EVA Briefing - JSC
- 1:00 p.m. - Orbiter Upgrades Briefing - JSC
- 2:00 p.m. - STS-101 Crew Briefing - JSC

March 28, Tuesday
- *9:30 - 10:30 a.m. - Ames Modulator Validation Test - ARC
- *2:00 p.m. - Mars Program. Independent Assessment Team. Report 
   Briefing - HQ

March 29, Wednesday
- 1:00 p.m. - New Planets Space Science Update - HQ

March 30, Thursday
- *12:30 p.m. - X-38 Drop Test - DFRC (Note:  test time subject to 
   change depending on weather conditions)
- 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. - Mars 2000 (replay from 2/28/00) - HQ

March 31, Friday
- 9:00 a.m. - Noon - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the 
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; 
  Appropriations Committee (recorded 3/30/00) - HQ
- 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - FY 2001 Budget Posture Hearing before the 
  House Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies; 
  Appropriations Committee (recorded 3/30/00 continued) - HQ
- 5:30 - 10:00 p.m. - "Planet Hunting Mission" Live News 
  Interviews - JPL 

April 1, Saturday
- 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Ames Research Center Western Regional 
  FIRST Robotics Competition - San Jose State University Event 
  Center, San Jose, CA (direct uplink to NTV)



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NEWS RELEASES:



None today.



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

Index of 2000 NASA News Releases:
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2000/index.html

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



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VIDEO:

Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN.

ANY CHANGES TO THE VIDEO LINE-UP WILL APPEAR ON THE NASA VIDEO 
FILE ADVISORY ON THE WEB AT 
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt
WE UPDATE THE ADVISORY THROUGHOUT THE DAY.

The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 9 p.m.
and midnight Eastern Time.

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.

Refer general questions about the video file to NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC: Ray Castillo, 202/358-4555, or Fred Brown,
202/358-0713, fred.brown@hq.nasa.gov

During Space Shuttle missions, the full NASA TV schedule will
continue to be posted at:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html

For general information about NASA TV see:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/



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