NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: March 10, 1999

Media Advisory m99-048

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Summary

-- News release on early servicing mission to Hubble Space

Telescope
-- Video file for March 10
-- Live interview opportunities for possible new flu drug
resulting from space research, March 12

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News Releases for March 10, 1999

NASA PLANS AN EARLY SERVICING MISSION TO HUBBLE SPACE

TELESCOPE

NASA will launch a Space Shuttle mission to the Hubble

Space Telescope in October so astronauts can replace
portions of the spacecraft�s pointing system, which has
begun to fail. Hubble is operating normally and continuing
to conduct its scientific observations, but only three of
its six gyroscopes �- which allow the telescope to point at
stars, planets and other targets -� are working properly.

Contact at Headquarters: Don Savage or Jennifer

McCarter, 202/358-1547; Contact at Goddard Space Flight
Center: Nancy Neal, 301/286-0039.

Full text of the release:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-038.txt

If NASA issues any 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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Contract Awards

Contract awards are posted to the NASA Acquisition

Information Service Web site:

http://procurement.nasa.gov/EPS/award.html

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Video File for March 10, 1999

ITEM 1. NEW TOOL FOR FORECASTING ENORMOUS SOLAR ERUPTIONS

(replay)

Scientists will announce a potential tool for

forecasting enormous and violent explosions on the Sun's
outer atmosphere. The explosions, called coronal mass
ejections, are as powerful as billions of nuclear
explosions and can affect radio communications, electrical
power systems and satellites orbiting Earth.

For more information contact Don Savage, NASA

Headquarters (202/358-1547); Bill Steigerwald, Goddard
Space Flight Center (301/286-5017).

The NASA Video File airs at noon, 3, 6, 9 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
at 6.8 megahertz. The full text of the most recent NASA
Video File Advisory can be found at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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Upcoming Live Television Interview Opportunities: Space

Research May Lead to New Flu Drug

March 12, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. EST.

A new drug, developed by a partnership between NASA and

the University of Alabama at Birmingham, may stop the
flu. Two Johnson & Johnson companies are preparing to begin
human clinical trials. Talent: Dr. Karen Moore,
biotechnology scientist from the Center for Molecular
Crystallography, a NASA Commercial Space Center in
Birmingham, Alabama. To book a time, call Terasha King at
(256) 544-3234 or Connie James at 256-544-1183 (PIN 0224).

Full text of the advisory can be found at:

ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

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