yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (06/22/91)
Ed Campion Headquarters, Washington, D.C. June 17, 1991 (Phone: 202/453-1134) Barbara Schwartz Johnson Space Center, Houston (Phone: 713/483-5111) RELEASE: N91-45 EDITORS NOTE: SHUTTLE MISSION STS-43 BRIEFINGS SET A series of preflight briefings on Space Shuttle mission STS-43 will be held June 26 and 27 at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, building 2, room 135. The primary payload Tracking and Data Relay Satellite briefing will be Wednesday at 9 a.m. EDT followed by the STS-43 crew briefing at 9:30 a.m. The astronaut crew will be available for round robin interviews after the briefing. Media representatives wishing to participate in the interviews should notify the JSC newsroom by the afternoon of June 24. Beginning at 9 a.m. on Thursday, lead flight director Rob Kelso will present a mission overview followed by payloads briefings on the Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element-II, Bioserve-Instrumentation Technology Associates Materials Dispersion Apparatus and Protein Crystal Growth. All briefings will be carried on NASA Select television with two-way audio for questions and answers from other NASA centers. NASA Select programming is carried on Satcom F2R, transponder 13, located at 72 degrees west longitude.