NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: Dec. 18, 1998

Media Advisory 98-98

TODAY'S SUMMARY:

NASA Video File for Dec. 18, 1998

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If additional news releases are issued later today, summaries

and Internet URLs will be e-mailed to this list.

Index of NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1998/index.html

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NASA VIDEO FILE FOR DEC. 18, 1998

ITEM 1: Apollo 8 Christmas Message

Excerpt from Dec. 24, 1968, television broadcast by NASA
Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders
during the Apollo 8 mission. This was the first mission to orbit the
moon. Upon entering lunar orbit, on Dec. 24, the astronauts broadcast
vistas of the moon and "Earthrise" over the moon. As a Christmas
message to the world, they read passages from Genesis. This is the 30th
anniversary of this mission, which took place Dec. 21-27, 1968.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Elvia Thompson 202/358-

1696.

ITEM 2: X-34 Animation (replay)

Animation of a typical X-34 flight. The suborbital X-34 and X-33
vehicles will demonstrate key high-speed and high-altitude technologies
leading to a full-sized, commercially operated Reusable Launch Vehicle
in the next few years.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Jim Cast 202/358-1779.

ITEM 3: NASA'S Top 10 Video Files of 1998 (replay)

1: JOHN GLENN RETURNS TO SPACE

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen Hawley

281/483-5111.

2: BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: James Hartsfield

281/483-5111.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dwayne Brown 202/358-
1726.

3: HUBBLE VIEWS POSSIBLE PLANET OUTSIDE MILKY WAY

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: Ray

Villard 410/338-4514.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage: 202/358-
1727.

4: GAMMA RAY BLAST RIVALS BIG BANG

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Bill

Steigerwald 301/286-5017.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage 202/358-
1727.

5: LUNAR PROSPECTOR FINDS ICE ON MOON

Contact at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA: David

Morse 650/604-4724.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug Isbell 202/358-
1753.

6: EL NINO/LA NINA CAUSE SEVERE WEATHER

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Mary

Hardin 818/354-0344.
Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Wade
Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dave Steitz 202/358-
1730.

7: ANTARCTIC OZONE HOLE BIGGEST YET

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Wade

Sisler 301/286-6256.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Dave Steitz 202/358-
1730.
8: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER MAGNETAR

Contact at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL: Tim

Tyson 256/544-0994.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage 202/358-
1727.

9: SOLAR POWERED AIRPLANE REACHES ALTITUDE RECORD

Contact at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA: Fred

Brown 805/258-2663.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Mike Braukus 202/358-
1979.

10: EILEEN COLLINS NAMED FIRST FEMALE SHUTTLE COMMANDER

Contact at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX: Eileen Hawley

281/483-5111.

ITEM 4: Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Picture for December (replay)

Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: Ray

Villard 410/338-4514.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Don Savage: 202/358-
1727.

ITEM 5: 1998 Global Temperature Smashes Record (replay)

Contact at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD: Lynn

Chandler 301/614-5562.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: David Steitz
202/358-1730.

ITEM 6: Launch (on Dec. 11) of Mars Climate Orbiter (replay)

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: Diane

Ainsworth 818/354-5011.
Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Doug Isbell 202/358-
1753.

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The NASA Video File normally airs at noon, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00
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.

Ray Castillo
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: 202/358-4555.

The most recent NASA Video File Advisory can be found at:
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