yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (09/12/90)
Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. September 10, 1990
(Phone: 202/453-4164)
Steve Nesbitt
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
N90-70
NOTE TO EDITORS: STS-41 MEDIA BRIEFINGS
A series of preflight briefings for Space Shuttle mission
STS-41, the deployment of the Ulysses spacecraft, will be held
Wednesday and Thursday of this week at the Johnson Space Center,
Houston and NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
From Houston, Lead Flight Director Milt Heflin will present
an overview of the mission beginning at 10 a.m. EDT on
Wednesday. The astronaut crew of STS-41 will hold a press
conference beginning at 11 a.m., followed in the afternoon by
round-robin interviews. Media representatives wishing to
participate in the interviews should notify the JSC Newsroom by
Tuesday afternoon.
Thursday's briefing from Headquarters begins at 1 p.m. EDT
with the Ulysses spacecraft and science objectives, followed by
briefings on other payloads and mission objectives from Houston.
All briefings will be carried on NASA Select television
(Satcom F2R, transponder 13, 72 degrees west longitude frequency
3960.0 MHz, and audio 6.8MHz) with two-way question and answer
capability.