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NASA Daily News Summary

For Release: June 30, 1999


Media Advisory m99-132

Summary:

-- Video File for June 30: A Close Encounter With Mars

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Index of 1999 NASA News Releases:

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

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Video File for June 30, 1999

ITEM 1 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH MARS


ITEM 2 MARS IMAGES TO HELP SCIENTISTS FIND LANDING SITE FOR
2001 LANDER
ITEM 3 X-34 ROCKET PLANE FIRST CAPTIVE CARRY FLIGHT (REPLAY)
ITEM 4 FASTRAC ENGINE (TRT 05:34)

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ITEM 1 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH MARS

Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight


years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the
space-based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. NASA is
releasing these images to commemorate the second anniversary of the Mars
Pathfinder landing. These images were taken between April 27 and May 6,
when Mars was 54 million miles (87 million kilometers) from Earth. From
this distance the telescope could see Martian features as small as 12
miles (19 kilometers) wide. The telescope obtained four images, which
together, show the entire planet. Each view depicts the planet as it
completes one quarter of its daily rotation.

For more information:


http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/pr/1999/27/index.html

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Doug Isbell, 202/358-1547;


Contact at Space Telescope Science Institute: Ray Villard, 410/338-
4514.

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ITEM 2 MARS IMAGES TO HELP SCIENTISTS FIND LANDING SITE FOR
2001 LANDER

One of the original objectives of the Mars Global Surveyor's Mars


Orbiter Camera when it was proposed to NASA in 1985 was to take pictures
that would be used to assess future spacecraft landing sites. Images
obtained since March 1provide the highest resolution views of the planet
ever seen. Over the past several months, science personnel have been
examining the new data to develop a general view of what Mars is like at
the meter-scale. These investigations will help scientists pinpoint a
landing site for the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

For more information see:

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/6_25_99_landingsites/ind
ex.html

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Doug Isbell, 202/358-1547;


Contact at Jet Propulsion Lab: Mary Hardin, 818/354-0344.

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ITEM 3 X-34 ROCKET PLANE FIRST CAPTIVE CARRY FLIGHT (REPLAY)

Locked to the belly of its newly modified L-1011 carrier aircraft,


a test version of NASA's X-34 rocket plane made its first flight June 29
from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA. The prototype of
the robotic spacecraft will test new technologies and methods of
operations needed to develop low-cost reusable space vehicles. This
captive-carry flight, in which the aircraft and test vehicle remained
combined, checked for potentially hazardous conditions that may have
resulted from modifications made to the L-1011 to enable it to carry the
X-34.

Contact at NASA Headquarters: Jim Cast, 202/358-1779;


Contact at NASA Dryden: Leslie A. Mathews, 661/258-3893;
Contact at NASA Marshall: Dominic Amatore, 256/544-0031;
Contact at Orbital Sciences Corp.: Barron Beneski, 703/406-5000.
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ITEM 4 FASTRAC ENGINE (TRT 05:34)

ITEM 4A FASTRAC ENGINE TESTS


The Fastrac engine, a low-cost rocket engine that will power the
X-34 technology demonstrator, successfully completes a full-duration
engine test at NASA's Stennis Space Center, Miss.

ITEM 4B FASTRAC CONTROL ROOM/B-ROLL


Control room footage during the firing of the Fastrac engine at
Stennis Space Center.

ITEM 4C FASTRAC ENGINE B-ROLL


Footage shows Fastrac engine assembly and load.

ITEM 4D INTERVIEW: Danny Davis, NASA Project manager, Marshall Space


Flight Center

Contact at NASA Stennis: Lanee Cooksey, 228/688-1957;


Contact at NASA Marshall: Dom Amatore, 256/544-6533.

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