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NASA Daily News
Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Two Independence Square, 
Washington, D.C.
Audio service: 202/358-3014

 % KSC technicians readying Columbia for move to Vehicle 
                 Assembly Building;
 % STS-54 post-mission briefing set for Monday, Feb. 1, 
                 at 4:00 pm EST;
 % STS-55 pre-mission briefings to begin on Wednesday, 
                 Feb. 3, at 9:30 am EST;
 % Geological, environmental, & remote sensing symposia 
                 set to begin next week .

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Kennedy Space Center technicians are expecting to have 
Columbia ready to move from the Orbiter Processing 
Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building by this 
weekend.  Activity currently underway in OPF Bay 2 
includes crew compartment and aft engine compartment 
closeouts.  Activity remaining includes the standard 
weight and center-of-gravity determinations and 
installation of Columbia onto its transporter for the 
move to the VAB.  Once in the VAB, currently anticipated 
to be by next Wednesday, the orbiter will be stacked onto 
the external tank and made ready for the move to the 
launch pad.

KSC management will hold its launch readiness review on 
Monday, Feb. 8.  The NASA Office of Space Flight 
management's formal Flight Readiness Review will be held 
at KSC on Thursday, Feb. 12.  The launch dress rehearsal 
with the astronaut and ground launch team crews will take 
place on Feb. 11 and 12, with the simulated launch time 
at 11:00 am EST on Feb. 12.

Preparations on Columbia are proceeding on a schedule 
which could allow the launch of the STS-55 mission in 
late February.  The STS-55 mission is the second 
dedicated German research flight; the first was the D-1 
mission which flew on STS-61A in November 1985.  This 
flight is scheduled as an 8-day and 22-hour, seven-
crewmember mission with the Spacelab long module and a 
variety of scientific discipline investigations.  This 
mission's major Spacelab facilities will continue the 
exploration of fluid physics and human physiological 
changes in microgravity.  Additional experiments will 
continue the investigations of the Earth's atmosphere, 
the surface topography of the planet, and include 
additional investigations in galactic astronomy and 
technology development.

The mission will also feature the flight of two German 
payload specialists and will provide both the U.S. and 
German crewmembers with daily opportunities to 
communicate with Earth-bound citizens in both countries 
through the Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment gear, which 
is flying again on this mission.

Briefings on the mission objectives and science 
experiments will be held at the Johnson Space Center next 
Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 3 and 4.  The briefings will 
be carried live on NASA Select television, and will begin 
at 9:30 am EST on Wednesday.

Also, a post-mission briefing by the crew of the last 
mission, STS-54, will be held at JSC on Monday, Feb. 1.  
This also will be shown live on NASA Select television, 
beginning at 4:00 pm EST.

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The Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) 
is hosting the 9th Thematic Conference on Geologic Remote 
Sensing in Pasadena, Calif., Monday, Feb. 8 through 
Thursday, Feb. 11.  Cooperating professional societies 
include the American Society for Photogrammetry and 
Remote Sensing, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 
the Geological Society of America, the Colorado Mining 
Association, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, the 
International Society for Optical Engineering, and the 
American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

The Pasadena conference will feature special workshops on 
the geological applications of radar remote sensing and 
other workshops on geographic information systems (GIS).  
The conference will take place at the Pasadena Center 
Conference Building and at the nearby Doubletree Hotel.

Other related international conferences scheduled in the 
near future include the 25th International Symposium on 
Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change, also 
being co-sponsored by ERIM, in Graz, Austria, the week of 
April 4 through 8; and the International Society for 
Optical Engineering and American Institute of Aeronautics 
and Astronautics jointly-hosted Optical Engineering and 
Photonics in Aerospace Science and Sensing Symposium to 
be held in Orlando, Fla., the week of April 12 through 
16.


Here's the broadcast schedule for Public Affairs events 
on NASA Select TV.  Note that all events and times may 
change without notice, and that all times listed are 
Eastern.  Live indicates a program is transmitted live.

Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Live 
12:00 pm
                 NASA Today news program, today 
                 featuring a report on the upcoming STS-55 mission; a 
                 report from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Mars 
                 Observer, now enroute to the Red Planet; a report on an 
                 experiment in the Antarctic which bears on the Mars 
                 mission; and a report on a NASA airplane which has an 
                 extra set of landing wheels. 

12:15 pm
                 Aeronautics & Space Report.

12:30 pm
                 Science Operations in Space.

1:00 pm
                 NASA 1992 P the Year in Review.

1:45 pm
                 Magnetic Effects in Space.

2:00 pm
                 Starfinder program #8.

2:30 pm
                 Where Dreams Come From.

3:00 pm
                 Total Quality Management program #31, from 
                 the University of New Mexico series.

at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast 
                 schedule of the day repeats.

Thursday, January 28, 1993
Live 
12:00 pm
                 NASA Today news program.

12:15 pm
                 Aeronautics & Space Report.

12:30 pm
                 Aeronautics and Technology program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:00 pm
                 Human space flight program block (title 
                 will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

2:00 pm
                 Starfinder program #9.

2:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

3:00 pm
                 Total Quality Management program #32, from 
                 the University of New Mexico series.

at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast 
          schedule of the day repeats.

Friday, January 29, 1993
Live 
                 12:00 pm
                 NASA Today news program.

12:15 pm
                 Aeronautics & Space Report.

12:30 pm
                 Aeronautics and Technology program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:00 pm
                 Human space flight program block (title 
                 will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

2:00 pm
                 Starfinder program #10.

2:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

3:00 pm
                 Total Quality Management program #33, from 
                 the University of New Mexico series.

at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast 
                 schedule of the day repeats.

Monday, February 1, 1993
Live
4:00 pm
                 STS-54 astronaut crew post-mission 
                 briefing from the Johnson Space Center.

Tuesday, February 2, 1993
Live 
12:00 pm
                 NASA Today news program.

12:15 pm
                 Aeronautics & Space Report.

12:30 pm
                 Aeronautics and Technology program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:00 pm
          Human space flight program block (title 
                 will be provided as schedule is developed).

1:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

2:00 pm
                 Starfinder program #11.

2:30 pm
                 Earth and Space Science program block 
                 (title will be provided as schedule is developed).

3:00 pm
                 Total Quality Management program #34, from 
                 the University of New Mexico series.

at 4:00 and 8:00 pm and 12:00 midnight the broadcast 
                 schedule of the day repeats.

Wednesday, February 3, 1993
L:30 am
                 STS-55 mission overview with Gary Coen, 
                 lead flight director, from Johnson Space Center.
Live
10:30 am
                 German Research Organization science 
                 overview with discipline investigation principal 
                 investigators, from JSC.
Live
12:00 pm
                 NASA science overview with discipline 
                 investigation principal investigators, from JSC.
Live
2:00 pm
                 Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment briefing 
                 with Louis McFadin, from JSC.

Thursday, February 4, 1993
Live
9:00 am
                 STS-55 crew briefing with Steven Nagel, 
                 commander; Ternce Henricks, pilot; Jerry Ross, Bernard 
                 Harris, Jr., and Charles Precourt, mission specialists; 
                 and Hans Schlegel and Ulrich Walter, German payload 
                 specialists; from JSC.


This report is filed daily at noon, Monday through 
Friday.  It is a service of NASA's Office of Public 
Affairs.  The editor is Charles Redmond, 202/358-3014 or 
CREDMOND on NASAmail.  NASA Select TV is carried on GE 
Satcom F2R, transponder 13, C-Band, 72 degrees West 
Longitude, transponder frequency is 3960 MegaHertz, audio 
subcarrier is 6.8 MHz, polarization is vertical.
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