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Ed Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                                  June 17, 1991
(Phone:  202/453-1134)

Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone:  713/483-5111)


RELEASE:  N91-45

EDITORS NOTE:  SHUTTLE MISSION STS-43 BRIEFINGS SET


	A series of preflight briefings on Space Shuttle mission STS-43 will 
be held June 26 and 27 at the Johnson Space Center, Houston,  building 2, 
room 135.

	The primary payload Tracking and Data Relay Satellite briefing will be 
Wednesday at 9 a.m. EDT followed by the STS-43 crew briefing at 9:30 a.m.  
The astronaut crew will be available for round robin interviews after the 
briefing.  Media representatives wishing to participate in the interviews 
should notify the JSC newsroom by the afternoon of June 24.

	Beginning at 9 a.m. on Thursday, lead flight director Rob Kelso will 
present a mission overview followed by payloads briefings on the Space 
Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element-II, Bioserve-Instrumentation 
Technology Associates Materials Dispersion Apparatus and Protein Crystal 
Growth.

	All briefings will be carried on NASA Select television with two-way 
audio for questions and answers from other NASA centers.  NASA Select 
programming is carried on Satcom F2R, transponder 13, located at 72 
degrees west longitude.