NASA Daily News Summary For Release: April 19, 2000 Media Advisory m00-78 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES: TERRA SPACECRAFT OPEN FOR BUSINESS ----- VIDEO VIDEO FILE (ALL TIMES EASTERN) ITEM 1 - TERRA FIRST SCIENCE RESULTS - GSFC ITEM 2 - STARDUST INTERSTELLAR DUST COLLECTOR - JPL (REPLAY) ITEM 3 - STS-101 CREW INTERVIEWS (REPLAY) NOTE: THE TERRA PRESS BRIEFING TODAY IS EXPECTED TO RUN 2 HOURS. THERE WILL BE NO GALLERY OR EDUCATION HOUR. LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK ***************************** NEWS RELEASES TERRA SPACECRAFT OPEN FOR BUSINESS After a picture-perfect launch into space last December, NASA's premier Earth Observing System Satellite, Terra, has completed on- orbit checkout and verification and is "open for business." Terra, an international mission and part of NASA's Earth Sciences Enterprise, is opening a new window to the Earth and is providing daily information on the health of the planet. First images from the five instruments aboard Terra are being presented during a press briefing today at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC. Terra is the first satellite to monitor daily -- and on a global scale -- how the Earth's atmosphere, lands, oceans, solar radiation and life influence each other. Terra's wide array of measurements will give a comprehensive evaluation of the Earth as a system and will establish a new basis for long-term monitoring of the Earth's climate changes. Images of Terra's first results can be found on the Internet at: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov or http://terra.gsfc.nasa.gov Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David E. Steitz (Phone 202/358-1730). Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Allen Kenitzer (Phone 301/286-2806). For full text, see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-062.txt ----------------------------- 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 ***************************** VIDEO LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS THIS WEEK: April 19, Wednesday - 1:00 - 3:00 pm - Terra First Science Results Press Briefing - HQ April 20, Thursday - 5:00 - 11:00 am - Terra First Science Results Live News Interviews - GSFC April 21, Friday - 6:00 - 8:45 am - How Dangerous are the Aurora Borealis? Live News Interviews - MSFC - 9:00 am - 9:30 am - STS-101 L-3 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC - 3:00 pm - STS-101 Crew Arrival at Kennedy Space Center - KSC - 5:30 - 10:00 pm - Stardust Live News Interviews - JPL April 22, Saturday - 9:00 am - STS-101 L-2 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC - 10:00 am - International Space Station Briefing - KSC - 4:00 pm - STS-101 Launch Readiness News Conference - KSC April 23, Sunday - 9:00 am - STS-101 L-1 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC ----------------------------- 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/ ***************************** Contract Awards Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html ***************************** The NASA Daily News Summary is issued each business day at approximately 2 p.m. Eastern time. Members of the media who wish to subscribe or unsubscribe from this list, please send e-mail message to: Brian.Dunbar@hq.nasa.gov ***************************** end of daily news summary