NASA Daily News Summary For Release: July 11, 2000 Media Advisory m00-133 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES CHANDRA CAPTURES FLARE FROM BROWN DWARF ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT OBSERVED VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** Video File for July 11, 2000 ITEM 1 - APOLLO-SOYUZ 25TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO FILE - HQ ITEM 2 - 7/10/00 SERVICE MODULE PROCESSING VIDEO - JSC (REPLAY) ITEM 3 - 7/7/00 SERVICE MODULE PROCESSING FOOTAGE - JSC (REPLAY) ITEM 4 - ISS ANIMATION - JSC (REPLAY) UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES CHANDRA CAPTURES FLARE FROM BROWN DWARF NASA's latest observatory, designed to see the most violent and stunning cosmic phenomena, captured something unexpected. The Chandra X-ray Observatory, orbiting in space about one-third of the way to the moon, saw the first-ever flare from what's known as a brown dwarf, or failed star. Full text: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-103.txt Headquarters contact: Dolores Beasley (Phone: 202/358-1753) Marshall Space Flight Center contact: Steve Roy (Phone: 256/544-6535) Chandra X-ray Observatory Center contact: Dr. Wallace Tucker (Phone: 617/496- 7998) ---------------------------- ANNIVERSARY OF APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT OBSERVED With Russia's launch of its major contribution to the International Space Station imminent, NASA today prepares to mark Saturday's 25th anniversary of an earlier cooperative human space flight endeavor -- the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). During the nine-day mission, NASA astronauts docked their Apollo spacecraft with the Soyuz 19 spacecraft. Today on its Video File feed, NASA Television will air historical footage of mission activities, including the docking of the two spacecraft. The NASA History Office today introduces an ASTP web page available on the Internet at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/astp/index.html Full text: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/2000/n00-030.txt Headquarters contact: Sarah Keegan (Phone: 202/358-1902) ---------------------------- 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 File for July 11, 2000 ITEM 1 - APOLLO-SOYUZ 25TH ANNIVERSARY VIDEO FILE - HQ ITEM 2 - 7/10/00 SERVICE MODULE PROCESSING VIDEO - JSC (REPLAY) ITEM 3 - 7/7/00 SERVICE MODULE PROCESSING FOOTAGE - JSC (REPLAY) ITEM 4 - ISS ANIMATION - JSC (REPLAY) **************************** UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS July 11, Tuesday 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Service Module Live News Interviews - JSC July 12, Wednesday 12:30 a.m. - Live Coverage and Commentary of Service Module Launch Begins - Baikonur, Kazakhstan (via JSC) *12:56 a.m. - Service Module Launch - Baikonur, Kazakhstan (via JSC) 2:30 a.m. - Service Module Post-Launch News Conference - Baikonur, Kazakhstan (via JSC) (note: press conference will be live with questions from Russia only) 5:00 a.m. - Replay of Russian Mission Control Service Module Post- Launch News Conference - Korolev, Russia (via JSC) (note: taped replay of press conference with questions from Russia only) 6:00 a.m. - Service Module Launch and Post-Launch Video File - JSC 6:45 - 9:00 a.m. - Service Module Live News Interviews - JSC July 13, Thursday 8:00 a.m. - Service Module Update Report - Korolev, Russia (via JSC) July 14, Friday 8:00 a.m. - Service Module Update Report - Korolev, Russia (via JSC) **************************** For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- 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 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm 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. 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