yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (08/25/89)
Sarah Keegan
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. August 24, 1989
Steve Nesbitt
Johnson Space Center, Houston
N89-61
EDITORS NOTE: STS-34 BACKGROUND BRIEFINGS SET
The background briefings and astronaut press conference for
STS-34, the Oct. 12 flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, are
scheduled for Sept. 5 and 6 at the Johnson Space Center, Houston.
STS-34 will deploy the Galileo spacecraft to study the
planet Jupiter.
A mission overview with the lead flight director and Galileo
spacecraft mission manager will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT, Sept. 5,
followed at 3 p.m. by a briefing from the Galileo mission
scientist of the scientific observations to the made by the
planetary probe. Briefings on other STS-34 payloads and
experiments will follow.
The astronaut crew of STS-34 will hold a press conference at
11:15 a.m. EDT, Sept. 6.
All briefings will be carried live on NASA Select television
via Satcom F2R, transponder 13, 72 degrees west longitude. Two-
way question and answer capability will be available at NASA
Headquarters, Washington, D.C., the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, Calif., the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., and the
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.