NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: August 2, 1999

Media Advisory m99-157

Summary:

NASA AND FAA PICK STUDENT AIRCRAFT-DESIGN CONTEST WINNERS

ASTEROID FLYBY RESULTS BRIEFING SET FOR AUGUST 3

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NASA AND FAA PICK STUDENT AIRCRAFT-DESIGN CONTEST WINNERS

A new jet design by students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical

University in Daytona Beach, FL, has won NASA's and the FAA's
1998-99 National General Aviation Design Competition. NASA and
the FAA presented awards to Embry-Riddle and four other university
teams at a ceremony held at AirVenture '99, the Experimental
Aircraft Association's Annual Convention and Fly-In at Oshkosh,
WI.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Michael Braukus

202/358-1979.

Contact at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA: H.

Keith Henry 757/864-6120/24.

Contact at Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Hampton, VA:

Mary Sandy 757/865-0726.

Contact at FAA, Great Lakes Region, IL: Tony Molinaro 847/294-

7427

For full text of release see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-087.txt

ASTEROID FLYBY RESULTS BRIEFING SET FOR AUGUST 3

 NASA'S Deep Space 1 spacecraft flew by the asteroid Braille
in the early morning hours of July 29, completing all of the
mission's primary technology tests and gathering bonus scientific
data. Although the spacecraft did not obtain close-up images of
the asteroid, it took low-resolution, black-and-white photos
approximately 15 minutes after the flyby. The encounter returned
enough information about the rocky body to give scientists clues
about its composition and geologic history. Results from this
closest-ever spacecraft encounter with an asteroid will be the
topic of a televised Space Science Update briefing on Tuesday,
August 3, at 1 p.m. EDT in the von Karman auditorium at NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, It will be broadcast live
on NASA Television.

Contact at NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC: Douglas

Isbell/Donald Savage 202/358-1547.

Contact at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA: John G.

Watson 818/354-5011.

For full text of Note to Editors, see:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/note2edt/1999/n99-042.txt

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If NASA issues additional news releases later today, we will

e-mail summaries and Internet URLs to this list.

Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

http://www.nasa.gov/releases/1999/index.html

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