NASA Daily News Summary
For Release:  May 26, 2000
Media Advisory m00-105


SUMMARY


NEWS RELEASES

NASA to Announce Multimedia Partnership

NASA and Veterans Affairs Partner for Patient Safety


VIDEO

  ***ALL TIMES EASTERN***

For more information, watch NASA TV and check the Shuttle Mission Schedule for 
updates at: 
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html


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NASA to Announce Multimedia Partnership

     NASA and its newest commercial partner will announce a major multimedia 
collaboration next week. The unprecedented public-private partnership for 
multimedia and space imagery will be discussed at a news conference originating 
from the main auditorium (Bldg. N201) at NASA's Ames Research Center, Mountain 
View, CA, at 10 a.m. PDT on June 2.


Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC:  Brian Welch 
(Phone:  202/358-1600).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-023.txt


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NASA and Veterans Affairs Partner for Patient Safety

     News media are invited to attend a signing ceremony that will forge a new 
partnership for patient safety.  The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on May 30 
in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, located at 529 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC. Dr. Henry McDonald, Director of NASA's Ames Research Center, 
Moffett Field, CA, and Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, Acting Under Secretary for Health 
for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), will sign a formal agreement that 
paves the way for development of a voluntary external patient safety reporting 
system.  The VA Patient Safety Reporting System will be operated by NASA and 
will be modeled after the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS).

For full text, see:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-022.txt


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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


LIVE TELEVISION EVENTS


Please see the following website:

NASA TV Mission Schedule
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/nasatv/schedule.html


For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see 
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html



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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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Contract Awards

Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition information
Service Web site: http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html



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