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.