NASA Daily News Summary For Release: Sept. 6, 2000 Media Advisory m00-174 SUMMARY NEWS RELEASES NASA TECHNOLOGY COULD SAVE VANISHING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES VIDEO ***ALL TIMES EASTERN*** VIDEO FILE FOR SEPT. 6, 2000 UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS ***************************** NEWS RELEASES NASA TECHNOLOGY COULD SAVE VANISHING NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES The most up-to-the-minute language-instruction technology, used in the space program, may come to the rescue of some venerable old languages and cultures. Native American educators are looking at technology from NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, in their efforts to preserve and teach their peoples' languages. Johnson's Language Education Center, one of the largest and most advanced of its kind, teaches astronauts, Russian cosmonauts and others English, Russian and Japanese. Vernon Finley and Johnny Arlee, language instructors at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation at Pablo, in northwestern Montana, recently visited the language center. Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Sonja Alexander (Phone: 202/358-1761) Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: John Ira Petty (Phone: 281/483-5111) For full text see: ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/2000/00-135.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 File for Sept. 6, 2000 NOTE: TODAY'S VIDEOFILE WILL RUN APPROXIMATELY 1 1/2 hours ITEM 1 - EFFORT TO REMEDY TEACHER SHORTAGE LAUNCHED IN SILICON VALLEY - ARC ITEM 2 - NASA TECHNOLOGY MAY HELP PRESERVE ANCIENT NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGES - JSC ITEM 3 - LARGER SLOWER SPEED TENNIS BALL TESTED AT NASA AMES - ARC ITEM 4 - ULYSSES SPACECRAFT STUDIES THE SUN'S SOUTH POLAR CAP - JPL ITEM 5 - STS-106 ASTRONAUT CREW INTERVIEWS - JSC (REPLAY) COMMANDER WILCUTT - TRT 6:42 PILOT ALTMAN - TRT 7:21 MS 1 LU - TRT 5:50 MS 2 MASTRACCHIO - TRT 6:42 MS 3 BURBANK - TRT 7:31 MS 4 MALENCHENKO - TRT 9:11 MS 5 MORUKOV - TRT 9:57 ---------------------------- 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. ----------------------------- UPCOMING TELEVISION EVENTS September 6, Wednesday - 4:00 p.m. - STS-106 Launch Readiness News Briefing - KSC September 7, Thursday - 5:00 - 8:45 a.m. - TRMM Hurricane Prediction Live News Interviews - GSFC - (9:15 - 11:00 a.m. - TRMM Hurricane Prediction Live News Interviews - TBD commercial satellite) - 9:00 a.m. - STS-106 L-1 Countdown Status Briefing - KSC September 8, Friday - 8:45 a.m. - STS-106 Launch - KSC For a complete list of upcoming live television events, see http://www.nasa.gov/ntv/breaking.html ----------------------------- Unless otherwise noted, ALL TIMES ARE EASTERN. 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 pm 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