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.