yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (03/17/90)
Mark Hess
Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 16, 1990
Jeffrey E. Carr
Johnson Space Center, Houston
N90-16
NOTE TO EDITORS: STS-31 BRIEFING DATE CHANGE
Due to a change of date in the terminal countdown
demonstration test (TCDT), the STS-31 briefings and crew press
conference, originally scheduled for March 19 at the Johnson
Space Center, Houston, have been postponed until Thursday, March
22.
T-0 for the TCDT, orginally set for Thursday, was moved to
Tuesday because of a revision in launch pad activities at the
Kennedy Space Center. TCDT is the crew's traditional dress
rehearsal for launch day.
The briefings will begin at 9:30 a.m. EST, Thursday, with
Flight Director Bill Reeves. A briefing regarding the secondary
payloads and the student experiment is set for 10:30 a.m.,
followed by the crew press conference and round robin interviews
beginning at 11:30 a.m.
All briefings will be carried on NASA Select television with
two-way Q and A capability.