yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (03/06/90)
Mark Hess Headquarters, Washington, D.C. March 2, 1990 Charles Redmond Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Steve Nesbitt Johnson Space Center, Houston Carter Dove Goddard Space Flight Center RELEASE: N90-13 EDITORS NOTE: HST, STS-31 MISSION AND CREW BRIEFINGS SET A series of background briefings on the Hubble Space Telescope, the deployment mission, secondary payloads and the astronaut pre-flight press conference for Space Shuttle mission STS-31, now set for launch on April 12, will be held March 15 and 16 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and March 19 and 20 at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston. The briefing schedule follows (all times Eastern Standard): o Thursday, March 15, Goddard Visitor Center 9 a.m. Hubble Space Telescope Science 12 p.m. Preparations, deploy, verification, servicing 5 p.m. "How to cover mission" briefing o Friday, March 16, Goddard and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Press tours of HST control facilities (Goddard) or HST science operations areas (Institute) o Monday, March 19, Johnson Space Center 9:30 a.m. STS-31 Flight Director mission overview 10:30 a.m. Secondary, middeck and student experiments 11:30 a.m. Flight Crew Press Conference (Followed by round -robin media interviews) Briefings will be carried live on NASA Select television, available on Satcom F2R, transponder 13 at 3960 MHz. Two-way question and answer capability will be available at other NASA centers and at Headquarters. During the mission, media wishing to focus attention on the Hubble Space Telescope activities are advised to contact Goddard Public Affairs, 301/286-5565, to arrange for accreditation at the Goddard News Center. Goddard will operate a 24-hour-a-day newsroom during the mission and will have telescope scientists and managers available for briefings and interviews.